What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club

Bioethics and Philosophy in Orphan Black

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eBook - ePub

What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club

Bioethics and Philosophy in Orphan Black

About this book

What is the real-world history and science of human cloning, and does Orphan Black get it right? Can you "own" a person—even a cloned one? How can Sarah Manning be straight, Cosima gay, and Tony trans? Cult hit sci-fi show Orphan Black doesn't just entertain—it also raises fascinating questions about human cloning, its ethics, and its impact on personal identity.

In What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club: Bioethics and Philosophy in Orphan Black, prominent bioethicist Gregory E. Pence violates Clone Club's first rule to take us deeper into the show and its connections to the real world, including:

Widespread myths about human clones (and Orphan Black's rejection of them)

Our ugly history of eugenics

The ethics of human experimentation, by way of Projects Castor and Leda

What we can learn about clones and identity from twin studies and tensions among Orphan Black's clone "sisters"

Kendall Malone and other genetic anomalies

The brave new world of genetic enhancement and clonal dynasties, and how Helena and Kira Manning fit in

In the process, What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club reveals why Orphan Black is some of today's most engaging and thought-provoking television.

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Information

Publisher
Smart Pop
Year
2016
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781942952350
Subtopic
Theatre History & Criticism
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. CHAPTER 1: Orphan Black and Bioethics
  8. CHAPTER 2: Personhood and Human Clones
  9. CHAPTER 3: Our Fears of Clones
  10. CHAPTER 4: "These Crippled and Distorted Men"
  11. CHAPTER 5: "Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est"
  12. CHAPTER 6: What's Wrong with the Ledas?
  13. CHAPTER 7: The Ethics of synthetic Biology
  14. CHAPTER 8: Orphan Black and the Ethics of Patenting Human Life
  15. CHAPTER 9: “Things Which Have Never Been Done”
  16. CHAPTER 10: Nature, Nurture, and Clonal Identity
  17. CHAPTER 11: Are the Ledas Really Genetically Identical?
  18. CHAPTER 12: Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Orphan Black
  19. CHAPTER 13: Kendall Malone, Chimeras, and Sexual Anomalies at Birth
  20. CHAPTER 14: Would Knowing You Were a Clone Damage your Sense of Identity?
  21. CHAPTER 15: Kant's Personhood and the Formation of a Clone's Identity
  22. CHAPTER 16: "When Did I Become Us?"
  23. CHAPTER 17: Stealing and Swapping Identities
  24. CHAPTER 18: Clones and Free Will
  25. CHAPTER 19: Helena, Freud, Henrik, and Foucault
  26. CHAPTER 20: Top Five ideas for Future Orphan Black Episodes
  27. References
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. About the Author

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