PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jasmine Yong Hall
TI  - ‘Living in a Material World’: <em>Frankenstein</em> and new materialism
AID  - 10.1136/medhum-2021-012188
DP  - 2021 Nov 05
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - medhum-2021-012188
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2021/11/05/medhum-2021-012188.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2021/11/05/medhum-2021-012188.full
AB  - This paper uses concepts from Karen Barad’s theories from quantum physics and other theoretical approaches from new materialism to show how Frankenstein can be used to introduce this new framework and to challenge an older one based on dualism, representationalism and individualism. A new ethical understanding of the message of the text emerges from this reading—one that rethinks the prohibitions against ‘playing God’ or creating the unnatural and relies instead on an ethics of care.No data are available. There is no data.