TY  - GEN
T1  - Literature, science, and public policy from Darwin to genomics
A1  - Clayton, Jay, 1951-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009263504
AB  - Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range 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 help shape public policy, 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 that illustrate the important insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
OP  - 253
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2023).
CN  - PR830.S35 C57 2023
SN  - 9781009263504 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009263528 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009263511 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009263528
KW  - Science fiction, English : History and criticism.
KW  - Science fiction, American : History and criticism.
KW  - Science and literature.
KW  - Science in literature.
KW  - Genetic engineering in literature.
ER  -