Clone Stories: 'Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder'.
This article explores literary interrogations of the bioethical implications of cloning. It does so by outlining the basic science of cloning before going on to question the dominance of the Freudian notion of the 'uncanny' in the critical theoretical responses to cloning by figures such as Jean Bau...
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Edinburgh University Press
Nov2010
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