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Orphan black and philosophy : grand theft DNA / edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene.
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English
Published/Created
Chicago, Illinois : Open Court, [2016]
Description
xiv, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
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PN1992.77.O75 O77 2016
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Orphan black (Television program)
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Greene, Richard, 1961 September 2-
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Robison-Greene, Rachel, 1983-
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Series
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 102.
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Summary note
In the TV show Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles -- they're illegally produced clones, and someone is having them killed. Law enforcement is powerless to help so the clones form their own alliance to defend themselves. This book explores Orphan Black raises philosophical issues, as well as ethical and policy questions such as what makes a person unique and whether cloning is immoral.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.
Contents
Thanks
Leda thinkin' to us ...
pt. I. "How many of us are there?"
Fearfully and wonderfully made / John V. Karavitis
Go ask Alison / Daniel Malloy
When Clone Club looks for answers / Johanna Wolfert and Adam Barkman
Who owns clones? / Rod Carveth
pt. II. "If we're genetically identical, do you get that little patch of dry skin between your eyebrows?
The human being in the age of mechanical reproduction / Daniel Malloy
One clone from another / Erik Baldwin
I am and am not you / Jeremy Heuslein
pt. III. "You want to grow a tail, that's your business"
Laughing in the face of the absurd / Rob Luzecky and Charlene Elsby
Variation under ethics / Rachel Robison-Greene
How can clones disagree? / Audrey Delamont
pt. IV. "You know I never would've got in if you's said we were going to suburbia"
Leda, Castor, and their families / Carmen Wright
Not why but who / Sarah K. Donovan
Sisterhood's back in 'Orphan black' / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
Re: Production / Darci Doll
pt. V. "You just broke the first rule of Clone Club
The c-word / Rachel Robison-Greene
Is Sarah Manning responsible for what she does? / Joshua Heter and Josef Simpson
Dialog with the Buddha / Christopher Ketcham
A brief history of cloning / Richard Greene
References
The Clone Club
Index.
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ISBN
0812699203 ((paperback))
9780812699203 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016942074
OCLC
957022338
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