RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 ‘Living in a Material World’: <em>Frankenstein</em> and new materialism
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP e6
OP e6
DO 10.1136/medhum-2021-012188
VO 48
IS 2
A1 Jasmine Yong Hall
YR 2022
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/48/2/e6.abstract
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.