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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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Series Title
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Call Number
823.009 CLA l
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press.,
Collation
xviii, 244 pages; illustration
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781009263504
Classification
823.009
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Subject(s)
Science fiction, English
Science fiction, American
Science and literature
Science in literature
Genetic engineering in literature
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