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  - 2022 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - e6--e6
VI  - 48
IP  - 2
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/48/2/e6.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/48/2/e6.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2022 Jun 01; 48
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.