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Literature, science and public policy from Darwin to genomics
Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature and literary
study can help shape public policy concerning controversial scientific
issues such as genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and
more. Literature brings unique insights to these issues, dramatizing
their full complexity. Its value for public policy is demonstrated by
striking examples in chapters that take us from the literary response to
evolution in the Victorian era through the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics in the mid-twentieth century to present-day genomics. Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to train in the
field, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider
Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel
R. Delany, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Gary Shteyngart, and others who illustrate the important
insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science policy.
This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
is Kenan Professor of English, Communication of
Science and Technology, and Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt
University. Author of numerous books and articles on topics ranging
from Victorian literature to digital media, he is the recipient of the
Susanne M. Glasscock Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.
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