Genetic coming of age: Genomics, enhancement, and identity in film

New Literary History

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-282

  Kirby, David A ^a   Gaither, Laura A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 60950692937     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2005.0033     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. All analysis of the film versions of The Island of Dr. Moreau as eugenic parables can be found in David A. Kirby, "Are We Not Men?: The Horror of Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau" ParaDoxa 17 (2002): 93-108
2. Lee Silver, Remaking Eden (New York: Harper Collins, 1998)
3. See Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003) (hereafter cited in text)
4. Nicolas Pethes, 'Terminal Men: Biotechnological Experimentation and the Reshaping of 'the Human' in Medical Thrillers," New Literary History, this issue, 177
5. Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (New York: Times Books, 2003)
6. Ronald Bailey, "Random Genes vs. Designer Kids: Opposing Views from Bill McKibben and Ronald Bailey," Reason Online, May 16, 2003, http://www.reason.com/rb/mckibben.shtml
7. McKibben, "Random Genes vs. Designer Kids."
8. For an analysis of Gattaca and genetic determinism, see David A. Kirby, "The New Eugenics in Cinema: Genetic Determinism and Gene Therapy in Gattaca," Science Fiction Studies 27, no. 2 (2000), 193-215
9. See also Aylish Wood's discussion of Gattaca in Technoscience in Contemporary American Film (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002)
10. Bailey, "Is Freedom Just Another Word for Random Genes?" Reason Online, April 2, 2003, http://www.reason.com/rb/rb040203.shtml
11. For example, see Dennis Drayna et al., "Genetic Correlates of Musical Pitch Recognition in Humans," Science 291 (2001): 1969-72
12. Mary Rorty, review of The Future of Human Nature by Jürgen Habermas, Notre Dame Philosophical Views (2003), http://ndpr.nd.edu/archives.cfm?date= 2003
13. For example, see Jim Ritter, "Chicago lab helps couples create made-to-order babies," Chicago Sun-Times, May 5, 2004
14. and Peter Gorner, "Embryo is picked to try to save sister's life," Chicago Tribune, October 2, 2000
15. For example, Leon Kass, chairman of the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics, notes that a council memo questions "Is it proper to assign to an unconceived child the burden of being a savior of a sibling?" Quoted in Delthia Ricks, "Embryo Screening," Newsday, May 5, 2004
16. Beth Whitehouse, 'Thinking Pink (or Blue)," Newsday, June 14, 2004
17. Cathy Young, 'Troubling issues in biotechnology," Boston Globe, July 21, 2003
18. For example, see J. P. Telotte, Replications (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)
19. This is in fact the scenario Silver in Remaking Eden predicts will occur
20. Carl Elliot, Better Than Well (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 30
21. Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee, The UNA Mystique (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1995), 193
22. For example, see Michelle La Fontaine, "Perfect? An Analysis of the Global Human Genetics Fix," Women, Disability and Identify, ed. Asha Hans and Annie Patri (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003)