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Reflections on Saturday: the Mighty Story, the Mirror Stage, and Henry Perowne’s Ocular Proof

• April 16, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Gender, Medicine and literature, Saturday, Ship Fever
Tags: Andrea Barrett, Henry Perowne, Ian McEwan, mirror stage, narrative medicine, ocular proof, Rita Charon, Saturday, Ship Fever

SATURDAY, & The Moon-Blanched Infarct

• April 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Genetic determinism, Medicine and literature, Saturday
Tags: Arnold, Huntington's disease, Ian McEwan, lemonade, Mercedes, writer's block

A Saturday with the Perownes

• April 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Medicine and literature, Saturday
Tags: genetic sequencing, Huntington's disease, Saturday

Sonmi-451 v. Kathy: Who Has More Genetic Potential for Heart?

• April 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cloning, Cloud Atlas, Never Let Me Go

Inherited, Engineered, or Chosen: Attitude in Cloud Atlas

• April 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cloud Atlas, Stem cell research
Tags: attitude and old age, David Mitchell, twins

Evolution or Causation?

• April 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cloud Atlas, Evolution
Tags: causation, Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, individuality, Kant, modernism, narrative conventions, purposeless purpose, reincarnation, Tom Bissel

Time Cloned in a Vacuum

• April 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cloning, Never Let Me Go, Science and humanities
Tags: Cloning, Hailsham, ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Hiding in the Shadows

• April 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cloning, Never Let Me Go
Tags: Cloning, english public school system, fantasy, human cloning, ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, organ donation, trauma