Orphan black and philosophy : grand theft DNA / edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago, Illinois : Open Court, [2016]
Description
xiv, 230 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 102. [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0812699203 ((paperback))
    • 9780812699203 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016942074
    OCLC
    957022338
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