Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture

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This important book traces the depiction of biological science in literature, film, and journalism from Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein to Spielberg's Jurassic Park, exploring how familiar representation of scientific progress has influenced thepublic perception of it. Jon Turney calls for new stories that will help us view the innovations of the biotechnological agefrom a more positive perspective. .
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This important book traces the depiction of biological science in literature, film, and journalism from Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein to Spielberg's Jurassic Park, exploring how familiar representation of scientific progress has influenced thepublic perception of it. Jon Turney calls for new stories that will help us view the innovations of the biotechnological agefrom a more positive perspective. .
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New England Journal of Medicine
Frankenstein's Footsteps is original, provocative, instructive, and consistently interesting. Its appeal to historians is self-evident, but molecular biologists, geneticists, and physicians with literary inclinations will surely find this book worthwhile.
Library Journal
This book is a combination of history, biology, and genetics, literary and film criticism, and bioethics debate. A senior lecturer in science communication in the department of science and technology studies at University College London, Turney has many interesting things to say about how biological science is communicated to the public, how the story of Frankenstein has conjured up in popular culture certain images of science and scientists, and how those images have changed over time. That we can learn something from how sf and film influence public perceptions of science is a very good notion and an important one to consider, especially in light of recent experiments on monkey head transplants and sheep cloning. Unfortunately, Turney's academic prose style makes his book difficult to read, but it would still be a useful addition to a history or science communication collection.--Margaret Henderson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Libs., NY
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300074178
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/1998
  • Pages: 286
  • Product dimensions: 6.44 (w) x 9.42 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Mary Shelley's Creation 13
2 Hideous Progeny: Frankenstein Retold 26
3 As Remorseless as Nature: the Rise of Experimental Biology 43
4 Creating Life in the Laboratory 64
5 Into the Brave New World 91
6 Time-bombing Our Descendants 121
7 Priming the Biological Time Bomb 135
8 The Baby of the Century 160
9 The Gene Wars: Regulating Recombinant DNA 188
10 Conclusion: The Human Body Shop 200
Notes 223
Bibliography 249
Illustration Credits 271
Index 272
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