Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics

Wald, Priscilla

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60821-1

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“…Floris Tomasini claims such imaginative work is more appropriate than the application of normative ethical theories to such unfamiliar scenarios, as it allows science fiction to create ‘moral images’ to test our ethical convictions against (Tomasini 2007, 500). Suspending the audience’s disbelief and exposing them to a world of estrangement in which artificially gestated humans already exist, for example, provides a way for science fiction to challenge preconceptions about the nature of humanity (Wald 2008).…”

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Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology

Kendal

2022

Med Humanities

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This article explores the various reasons science-fictional references feature so prominently in bioethical debate, particularly regarding emerging reproductive biotechnologies. It will reflect on how science-fictional references are often co-opted in bioethics scholarship to promote technoconservatism, before considering how bioethicists can engage more appropriately with this genre in practice. This will include a discussion of which kinds of texts might be best suited to stimulate meaningful debate, and how using tools of literary analysis, such as narratology, can maximise the potential benefits of uniting these fields.

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Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology

Kendal

2022

Med Humanities

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“…This raised fundamental questions about ethics, violation of anonymity through the nomenclature of the cell line, informed consent, and benefits sharing. [ 11 12 ]…”

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The post-analytical phase of histopathology practice: Storage, retention and use of human tissue specimens

Kapila

Boaz

Natarajan

2016

Int J App Basic Med Res

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There are several aspects to a histopathology practice besides the acquisition of biopsy specimens and histopathological diagnosis. Pathology Departments are home to an abundant source of knowledge in the form of stored specimens and slides. We attempt to highlight the importance of regulation of storage, retention, and appropriate use of human tissue material in research and ownership rights to the same. We also discuss requirement and waiver of informed consent for scientific work involving the use of such tissues, which in the absence of defined laws come under the purview of Institution Review Boards. Pathology Departments, under the binding of the parent institution, are conceded the responsibility of maintenance and retention of pathology specimens. This communication highlights some of the important aspects in human tissue material handling and research, underscoring the necessity for established regulations regarding the same.

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“…Priscilla Wald writes: ‘The field of medical humanities has long turned to realist fiction to help address … ethical questions. Yet few commentators have explored the perspective on those questions offered by the (often debased) genre of science fiction, which’—only at its best, I would interject—‘does not reproduce readers' preconceived ideas about present-day social issues’ 5. While I want to explore what SF can do for the medical humanities, I also want to explore what medical humanities can do for SF—for one, pushing critics to reach beyond the canon and beyond genre.…”

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Pregnancy as protest in interwar British women's writing: an antecedent alternative to Aldous Huxley'sBrave New World

Bigman

2016

Med Humanities

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Accounts that take Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) as representative of interwar reproductive dystopia fail to recognise that the novel expresses both an interest and an anxiety about the possibility of new reproductive technologies to transform sex, gender, and the family that were widely shared by writers in different genres and perhaps expressed best by those likely to be most affected: women. This article explores three earlier works-Charlotte Haldane's Man's World (1926), Vera Brittain's Halcyon, or the Future of Monogamy (1929), and Naomi Mitchison's Comments on Birth Control (1930)-in which pregnancy, instead of figuring as illness or debility, becomes a form of resistance to the status quo. These works engage with biomedicine, however, rather than abjuring it. Through a reading of these works, this article argues that the intersection of medical humanities and science fiction (SF) can enrich both: medical humanities can push SF to go beyond the canon, and SF can challenge any characterisation of literature in the medical humanities as purely fantastical by demonstrating how it responds to the hopes and anxieties of a particular time.

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Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology

Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology

The post-analytical phase of histopathology practice: Storage, retention and use of human tissue specimens

Pregnancy as protest in interwar British women's writing: an antecedent alternative to Aldous Huxley'sBrave New World

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