Index

Jay Clayton

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Index

6th Day, The, 182–183, 221

2001: A Space Odyssey, 143, 218

23andMe, 145–146, 160, 161

Abrams, M. H., 84

Académie Nationale de Médecine, 198

Acquirre, Robert, 80

Adamson, Judith, 212

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, Friday Black, 164

Agamben, Giorgio, 191

Alderman, Naomi, The Power, 164

Aldhous, Peter, 157

Allen, Grant, 55

The British Barbarians, 60

Alter, Alexandra, 164

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 206

Amigoni, David, 210

Ancestry.com, 160

Anderson, Amanda, 26, 42, 209

Animals Containing Human Material, 36

Annas, George, 121, 216

Annie Besant, 66

Arata, Stephen, 67

Arnold, Matthew, xvi, 22, 23, 37–38, 46, 84, 99, 158, 192, 202

Ashley, Robert, 71

Asilomar Conference, 133

Atwood, Margaret

Alias Grace, 211

The Handmaid’s Tale, 102, 165

MaddAddam trilogy, 102, 164, 173–181, 184, 187, 221

Oryx and Crake, 121, 174, 204, 206

In Other Worlds, 220

Auerbach, Eric, 149–150, 219

Auerbach, Nina, 211

Avery, Oswald, 128

Babbage, Charles, 42

Bach, Johann Sebastian, The Goldberg Variations, 19, 156, 206

Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Windup Girl, 164, 184, 222

Baker, Robert S., 213

Baltimore, David, 169–170

Bangham, Jenny, 10

Barker, Clare, 10

Barnes, Barry, 74

Barrett, Andrea, 33, 76, 79–83, 204, 211

Barthes, Roland, 207

Bateson, Gregory, 123

Bateson, William, 98

Bear, Greg, 131, 134–136, 218

Bedford, Sybille, 108, 212

Beer, Gillian, 32, 210

Beivik, Jarle, 26

Bell, Clive, 108

Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward, 98

Benjamin, Walter, 151, 219

Bennett, D. S., 208

Bennett, Jane, 191

Bento Bio, 199

Bercovitch, Sacvan, 136–137, 140

Bergson, Henri, 103, 214

Bergthaller, Hannes, 222

Bernet, William, 170

Bersani, Leo, 154–155

Bérubé, Michael, 13

Besant, Annie, 211

Besant, Walter, The Fourth Generation, 59, 70

Bess, Michael, 10, 12

Best, Stephen and Sharon Marcus, 206

Bester, Alfred, The Demolished Man, 125, 217

Bible, 27

bildungsroman, 176, 184–193

biobanks, 166–167

biodystopia, 163–166, 186–188, 196, See also dystopia

bioethics, 4, 26–27, 35, 37, 124, 205, 216

anticipatory or speculative, See public policy, anticipations

and literature, 13–14, 17

and science fiction, 122–123

bioterrorism, 14, 173, 178–179

Bird, Adrian, 54

Black Mirror, x

Black, Shameem, 191

Blade Runner, x, 163, 221, 222

Blish, James, 129, 131, 132–133, 217

Bonnicksen, Andrea L., 208

Borges, Jorge Luis, 140

Bowler, Peter J., 56, 60, 210, 212, 214

Boys from Brazil, The, 182

Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451, 102, 114, 125

Bradshaw, David, 117, 215

Bradway, Tyler, 153, 219

Brem, Sarah and Karen Z. Anijar, 208

Brett, Dorothy, 108

Brey, Philip A. E., 137

Brin, David, The Postman, 165

Brint, Steven, 205

Browning, Robert, 195

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 55, 59–62, 69, 211

Burdett, Carolyn, 66

Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange, 102, 173, 220

Burke, Wylie, 157

Butler, Octavia E., 132–134, 184, 211, 216, 218

Butler, Samuel, 55–57, 64–66, 103–104, 183, 221

and Darwin, 64

Erewhon, 55–57, 210

Life and Habit, 64–65

and unconscious memory, 65

Byatt, A. S., 33, 76, 79–80, 85–88, 90, 93, 204, 211

Byron, Glennis and Linda Ogston, 222

Cain, mark of, 58, 59, 63, 64, 75

Callahan, Daniel, 205

Campbell, John W., 125, 130, 217

Cannon, Susan Faye, 209

Carey, Peter, 77

Carter, Adrian, 137

Caruth, Cathy, 68

Carver, Rebecca, 26

Caserio, Robert, 214

Casey, Marcie, 160, 221

Caspi, Avshalom, 168, 170–171

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 150, 154, 157, 208

Charo, Alta, 198

Chase, Richard, 63, 113

chimeras, 14

bioethical guidelines, 35–37, 39–41

fictional, 35–37, 39–40, 173–175

mythical, 36–37, 208

repugnance toward, 37, 51

scientific, 35–37, 208, 209

Chinese Academy of Science, 199

Choksey, Lara, 10

Chu, Patricia E., 10

Clarke, Arthur C., 218

Childhood’s End, 121, 122, 125, 127–128, 134, 143

Clarke, Bruce, 123, 133, 217

Clayton, Ellen Wright, x–xi, 7, 161, 203

Clayton, Jay, 150, 160, 221

Romantic Vision and the Novel, 192

Dickens in Cyberspace, 207, 209, 211, 218, 220

“Frankenstein’s Futurity: Replicants and Robots,” 222

Clayton, Jay and Claire Sisco King, 11

climate change, 26, 90–92, 181, 197, 211

and time, 32, 150, 154–155

Clinton, William Jefferson, 199

clones, 14

in Brave New World, 115–116

in Cloud Atlas, 165

in films, 182–184, 222

in Never Let Me Go, 182–197

Coger, Dal, 130

Cohen, Cynthia B., 36

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 78, 136, 138

collaboration, 10, 26, 44

Collins, Francis, 199

Collins, Wilkie, 74–75

antivivisection, 39

Heart and Science, 39, 73

The Legacy of Cain, 54, 69–73

The Moonstone, 71

Colman, Andrew M., 168

Conan Doyle, Arthur, The Lost World, 62

Condit, Celeste, 14, 20, 206

Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 49

Cook, Robin, 135

Cook-Deegan, Robert M., 8

Corelli, Marie, 66

Cowan, Tadlock and Geoffrey S. Becker, 179

Coyne, Jerry A., 85

Crawford, Kate, 172

Creighton, Michael, 135

CRISPR/Cas9, 199, 204

Cscicsery-Ronay, Istvan, 122–123, 137

culture

influence of, xi, 14–15, 20–21, 26–27, 30, 36–37, 69, 75, 179–180, 207

and symbolic meanings, 16, 21

Cunard, Nancy, 108

Cunningham, Michael, Specimen Days, 211

Dames, Nicholas, 68

DARPA, 199

Darwin, Charles, 19–20, 24, 31, 46, 50, 77, 81, 84–85, 87, 92–93, 97–98, 105, 210

Lamarckian aspects of, 54–57

and literature, 32–33, 58–61

and realism, 32, 58–59

Daston, Lorraine and Peter Galison, 80

Davidson, Jenny, Heredity, 184

Davis, Bernard, 206

Davis, Lennard, 10, 12–13

Dawkins, Richard, 159, 220

Deery, June, 213

degeneration, 39, 61–63, 65, 67, 73, 208

De Groot, Jerome, 10

Delany, Samuel R.

“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”, 147–155, 159

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, 153

De Man, Paul, 140

Dickens, Charles, 32, 71, 77–78, 192, 194–195, 197

Dimock, Wai Chee, 208

direct-to-consumer genetic testing, 145–146, 159–162, 219, 220

disciplinarity, 37–38, 41–46, 50–51, 209

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Brothers Karamazov, 114

Dougherty, Michael, 25, 206

Dowd, Maureen, 36

dramatic monologue, 195–196

Dreiser, Theodore, 113

Dupré, John, 20, 73–74

dystopia, 102, 107, 121, 163–166, 173–175, 184, 212, 215, 219, 222

as genre, 98–99, 112–114, 118

Eatough, Matthew, 188–190

Eccleston, Alex, 55, 69

ecofiction, 173–181

Eddington, Arthur, 103, 214

Edelman, Lee, 154–155

Egan, Greg, 140

Einstein, Albert, 84

Eliade, Mircea, 31

Eliot, George, 32, 33, 58, 192, 194, 197

Eliot, T. S., Waste Land, The, 49

ELSI, 8, 21, 26, 28, 183, 204

funding for humanities, 11

epigenetics, 25, 54–55

and blaming the mother, 58, 74–75

and directed evolution, 55, 62

and inheritance of acquired characteristics, 55, 56

maternal effects, 58, 74–75

and neo-Lamarckism, 56, 58, 69–70, 73–75

as undermining literary Darwinism, 73–74

Erdrich, Louise, Future Home of the Living God, 164

Etherington, Norman, 67, 211

eugenics, 14, 32–33, 58, 60–62, 65, 69, 73–74, 80, 163, 172

and science fiction, 126–129

Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex, 204

Evans, J. P., 157

evolution

and extinction, 31, 52, 66, 89–92, 129, 211

as gradual, 32, 59, 60

as not progressive, 47, 59, 103, 209

and survival of the fittest, 33, 60, 65, 92

viewed as sudden, 124, 127–129, 135, 143–144

viewed as teleological, 33, 103–104, 124, 127–129, 131, 211

evolutionary psychology, 73–74

fairy tales, 85–88

Faraday, Michael, 100

Farahany, Nita A., 162

Faulk, Sebastian, Human Traces, 77

Felski, Rita, 206

Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 213, 215

Fisher, R. A., 97, 102, 213

Ford, Henry, 111, 213

form, 29

impact of, xi, xiv–xv

Forster, E. M., Aspects of the Novel, 185

Foucault, Michel, 102, 123, 164, 207

Fowler, Karen Joy, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, 204

Franklin, Bruce, 217, 218

Franklin, Jeffrey, 66

Franklin, Rosalind, 95, 217

Freeman, Elizabeth, 152–155

Fricke, Stefanie, 222

Friedman, Susan, 214

Fromm, Erich, Escape from Freedom, 130

Fry, Roger, 108

Frye, Northrop, 84, 214

Fukuyama, Francis, 124, 137, 140–141, 202

futurology, 124

Gagnier, Regenia, 10, 12

Gallagher, Catherine, 139

Galton, William, 211

Garreau, Joel, 125, 142, 219

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 33, 58

Gattaca, x, 121, 163, 220

Geertz, Clifford, 21

gene editing, 203

genetic centrism, 57

genetic determinism, 4–6, 14, 20–25, 58, 168–170, 173

genetic discrimination, 163, 172, 186–187, 207

genetic engineering, 14, 106, 118, 163, 204

attacks on, 121, 136–143

in science fiction, 121–122, 127–129, 131–135

genetic essentialism, 69–70, 218

Genetic Factors in Crime Conference (1992), 168

genetic privacy, 11, 14, 26, 145–146, 166–173, 220

vulnerability of, 166–167

genetic screening, 14, 166, 172

genetic testing, See direct-to-consumer genetic testing

genetically modified organism (GMO), 14, 175, 176–177, 179–180, 221

genetics, 54

of aggression, 167–169, 173

behavioral, 167–172

and disability, 184, 200

and gender, 33

and longevity, 121, 125–129, 137, 163

and organ donation, 165, 185–190

and race, 3, 14, 33, 60–62, 69, 80, 89–90, 130, 132–134, 160, 167–172, 184, 187, 207

and religion, See religious views

and sexuality, 14, 160, 184, 220, 221

therapeutic vs. enhancement, 200, 204

genome time, See time, genome time

genre, ix, 59, 79–80, 84, 135–136, 165–166, 207, See also biodystopia; buildungsroman; dramatic monologue; dystopia; fairy tales; imperial romance; naturalism; neo-Victorian fiction; New Woman fiction; post-apocalyptic fiction; realism; satire; science fiction; sensation fiction; thrillers; Victorian period, genre fiction

impact of, xi, xv

germline editing, 199, 200

Ghosh, Amitav, Ibis trilogy, 77

Gibbons, Ethan, 221

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar, 67

Gill, Josie, 10

Gilman, Sander, 207

Gissing, George, 98, 113

Golding, William, Lord of the Flies, 41

Goodwin, Brian C., 57

Gordijn, Bert and Henk ten Have, 216

Gottschall, Jonathan, 211

Gould, Glenn, 206

Gould, Stephen Jay, xii, 31–32, 46, 84, 183, 208

Graff, Gerald, 209

Grand, Sarah, 55

Greely, Henry T., 36, 162

Green, Ronald M., 121, 142, 216, 219

Greene, Mark, 40, 177

Griffiths, Devin, 86–87

Groes, Sebastian, 191

Grove, Richard, 77

Guillory, John, 26, 209

Haeckel, Ernst, 66

Haggard, H. Rider, 59

She, 63–68

Halberstam, Jack, 152–155

Haldane, Charlotte, 212, 214

Man’s World, 99

Haldane, J. B. S., 8, 97–112, 115, 119, 163, 213

and Aldous Huxley, 97–112, 212

biography, 99

“Daedalus, or, Science and the Future”, 100, 142

as essayist, 99–101

and modern aesthetics, 104–106

opposition to modernism, 104–106

scientific point of view, 106–107

Haldane, J. S., 99–101, 108

Hamann, Paul, 10

Hamner, Everett, 10, 221, 222

Hanson, Clare, 10

Haraway, Donna J., 191

Hardy, Thomas, 32, 33, 58

Harris, John, 120, 125, 143, 208, 218, 219

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 27

Hayles, N. Katherine, 123

Haynes, Roslynn, 46, 208

Hazel, James, 219, 220

Hazlitt, William, 78, 84

Heinlein, Robert A., 121, 217

Beyond This Horizon, 125–129, 217

Methuselah’s Children, 125–129, 217

and social Darwinism, 126

Heise, Ursula, 150, 208

Hensley, Nathan, 208

Hertz, Rosanna and Margaret K. Nelson, 161

Hicks, Heather J., 10

Hinterberger, Amy, 208

historical analysis, comparative, xvi, 37–38, 41–45, 59, 69–70, 87

history

postmodern critique of, 79

Hoeffel, Janet C., 161

Hoffman, Eva, The Secret, 184

Hofstadter, Douglas, Gödel, Escher, Bach, 206

Holloway, Karla, 10, 12–13

Homer, 27

Hopkins, Gerard Manly, 193, 197

Horace, 78–79

Houghton, Frank, 221

Hubbard, Ruth, 20, 207

Hudson, W. H., A Crystal Age, 60

Hulme, T. E., 84

Human Genome Project, 199–200

humanism, 50, 133, 190–192

humanities, See also public policy, humanities’ role in

funding for policy work, xiv–xv, 10–11, 26, 28

integration with science, 26, 45

Huml, Anne E., 161

Huntington’s disease, 3, 4–5, 22–24, 148

Hutchinson, Mary, 108

Hutton, James, 31

Huxley, Aldous, xvi, 97–119, 213

Antic Hay, 103, 108, 109–110

and Bloomsbury, 108–109

Brave New World, x, 39, 97–101, 103, 111–119, 121, 163–164, 173

cultural impact of, 97, 115, 142, 202

genetics in, 114–119

influences on, 99–101

and cloning, 115–116

Crome Yellow, 108, 109

as essayist, 99–101

and genetics, 114–119

and impartiality, 111–112, 118–119

and J. B. S. Haldane, 97–112, 213

and D. H. Lawrence, 111–112, 212

and modernity, 107, 109–112, 118–119

opposition to modernism, 106, 109–112, 118–119

Point Counter Point, 100, 108, 110–112

as relativist, 97, 111–112, 118–119

and satire, 101, 107

and science, 99–101, 114–119

as dispassionate, 107, 110–114

Those Barren Leaves, 110

Huxley, Julian, xvi, 97, 102, 108, 163, 213, 214

biography, 99

Huxley, Juliette, 108

Huxley, Leonard, 108

Huxley, Maria, 108, 110, 214

Huxley, Thomas H., xvi, 45–48, 57, 159, 208, 209, 211

as advocate of disciplinarity, 45–46

“Evolution and Ethics”, 46–48, 209

and science education, 37–38, 42–43, 44

as Victorian sage, 46–48

Huyssen, Andreas, 83–84

Ibsen, Henrik, 113

imperial romance, 33, 58, 62–68

allegory in, 63

character types in, 63

and ideology, 63, 68

vs. realism, 63–64

symbolic landscapes in, 63

thrilling plots in, 59

imperialism, 33, 67, 77, 80

Institute of Medicine, 3, 35

Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, 36–37, 39–41

IRB, 8, 205

Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go, 102, 121, 164, 184–197, 204, 222

Island of Lost Souls, 51

Island, The, 221

Jablonka, Eva, 55, 57, 62, 69–70, 74–75

James, David, 193–195

James, David and Urmila Seshagiri, 105

James, P. D., Children of Men, 164

Jameson, Fredric, 62, 83, 113, 130, 174, 207, 212, 215

Jauss, Hans Robert, 207

Jeans, Sir James, 214

Jen, Gish, The Resisters, 102

Johnson, Charles, Middle Passage, 211

Johnson, Steven, 210

Jones, Edward P., The Known World, 211

Jones, Lloyd, Mister Pip, 77

Jonsen, Albert, 7

Joyce, James, 109

Judson, Horace, 168

Kafka, Franz “The Metamorphosis”, 37

Kahn, Jeffrey, 198

Karpowicz, Phillip, 36, 208, 209

Kass, Leon, 27, 69, 72–73, 120, 124, 136, 139–140, 202, 207, 218

on Brave New World, 116–117, 142

Katz, Wendy, 63

Kay, Lily, 20, 162, 219

Keller, Evelyn Fox, 16, 20, 57, 58, 162, 206

Kent, Christopher, 73

Kermode, Frank, The Sense of an Ending, 88

Kerr, Philip, A Philosophical Investigation, 102, 164, 166–173, 220

Kevles, Daniel J., 126

Keynes, John Maynard, 108

King, Michael, 137, 143

Kipling, Rudyard, The Man Who Would Be King, 62

Klein, Julie Thompson, 205

Kneale, Matthew, English Passengers, 77

Kooy, Derek van der, 36

Kramnick, Jonathan, 211

Kress, Nancy, 184, 216, 221

Kuklick, Henrika, 205

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 54–57

Lamb, Jonathan, 80

Lamb, Marion J., 55, 57, 62, 69–70, 74–75

Langbaum, Robert, 195

Lankester, E. Ray, 39, 208

Latour, Bruno, 32

Lawrence, D. H., 100, 108, 109, 111–112, 117, 212

Le Guin, Ursula K., ix, 132

Lee, Catherine, 207

Leiber, Fritz, The Big Time, 140

LeJeune Foundation, 199

Levine, Caroline, 206

Levine, George, 32, 80, 92–93, 210

Levine, Robert J., 205

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 129

Lewis, Barry, 191

Lewis, Wyndham, 108

Lewisohn, Ludwig, 109

Lewontin, Richard, 16, 20, 57, 162, 168, 206

Lindee, Susan, 14, 20, 206

literary Darwinism, 73–74

literary studies

methods of, xiv–xv, 14–16, 21, 68–70

pedagogy, 17–18, 21, 25, 41

literature

and complexity, 14–15, 69

content and theme in, xv, 69

and emotion, 14–15, 80, 88

formal resources of, 5, 14, 22–25, 29, 67, 82–83, 85–88, 185–186, 189

ambiguity, 88

analogy, 24, 65, 85–87

conventions, 69, 135–136

deixis, 195–196

imagery, 88

metaphor, 65, 85–88, 219

myth, 82–83

narrative, 135–136, 212

symbolism, 16, 64

world-building, 135–136, 170, 219

and identification, 68–69

and meaning, xviii, 14, 77–85

vs. knowledge, 79–83, 88, 91–93

multivalent, 85–87

and memory, 67, 82–84, 192–193, 196

misuse in public policy, 37–40, 50–52, 115, 116–119, 121, 122–123, 129–131, 144

periods in relation to genetics, xvi, 13, 104–106

genome time, xvii–xviii, 32

modern synthesis, xvi–xvii, 56, 213, 214

neo-Lamarckian, xvi, 32

and science, 22–25, 37–38, 41–45, 84–85, 92–93, 117, See also two cultures

Liu, Alan, 151–152

Lombroso, Cesare, 167

Lord Kelvin, 55, 210

Love, Heather, 206

Luckhurst, Roger, 130

Lukács, György, 83

Lyell, Charles, 31

Lynch, Lisa, 10, 218

Madame Blavatsky, 66

Mallon, Thomas, Two Moons, 211

Mansfield, Katherine, 108–109

Mao, Douglas, 214

Margolis, Samuel, 218

Marshall, William H., 71, 73

Mason, Daniel, The Piano Tuner, 77

materialism, 5, 32–33, 47–50, 53, 68, 91–92, 103, 159

Maudsley, Henry, 73

Mawr, Simon, Mendel’s Dwarf, 204

Maxwell, James Clerk, 210

Mayer, Otto, 210

Mayr, Ernst, 213

McCarthy, Cormac, The Road, 193

McDonald, Roger, Mr. Darwin’s Shooter, 77, 204

McEwan, Ian, Saturday, 3–6, 18–20, 22–25, 105, 156–158, 159, 185, 204

McGuffin, Peter, 169

McGurl, Mark, 125, 157–158

McHugh, Susan, 10

Meckier, Jerome, 215

medical ethics, See bioethics

memory, See literature, and memory; time and memory

Menand, Louis, 25

Mendel, Gregor, 81–82, 98

Mendlesohn, Farah, 130

Meredith, George, 58

Merril, Judith, 128

Merton, Robert K., 205

Metzl, Jonathan, 58

Meulenberg, Frans, 10, 12

Milburn, Colin, 122–123, 133, 149–150

Mill, John Stuart, 78, 84

millenarianism, See religious views

Miller, Jon D., 206

Millhauser, Steven, Martin Dressler, 211

Minority Report, 166

Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas, 33, 77, 88–92, 156, 159, 164–165, 184, 204

Mitchell, Robert, 10, 189

Mitchison, Naomi, 100, 212, 213

Mivart, St. George Jackson, 60

modern synthesis, 97–119,

defined, 97

and modernity, 101–107

as unifying or synthetic, 101–102

modernism, 42, 213

opposition among the Huxley circle, 104–106, 109–112, 118–119

modernity, 101–112, 118–119, 213

as demystified, 101–112

Mond, Alfred, 111, 213

Moore, Lorrie, 27

Moretti, Franco, 188

Morgan, Lloyd, 103

Morrell, Jack and Arnold Thackray, 209

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 108

Morris, William, News from Nowhere, 60, 98

Morton, Peter, 73, 210, 211

Mosley, Oswald, 110

Mosley, Walter, Futureland, 164

Moylan, Tom, 117, 212, 215

Muller, Hermann J., 9, 99

Multiplicity, 182–183, 221

Muñoz, José, 150, 152–155

Murphy, Heather, 161

Murphy, Patricia, 67

Murray, Nicholas, 213, 214

Murray, Timothy, 10

Murry, John Middleton, 108

Naam, Ramez, 216, 219

nanoscience

and science fiction, 122–123, 149–150

and time, 149–150

narrative, xiv, 90–91

descent through time, 67, 81–82

formal features of, 5, 22–25, 112–114, 185–186

oral, 151–152

and world-building, xv, 219

National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 43, 205, 206, 208

naturalism, 98–99, 112–114, 165

nature vs. nurture, 70–73

Neill, Anna, 10, 32

Nelkin, Dorothy, 14, 20, 206

Nelson, Alondra, 160, 207

neo-Lamarckism

and blaming the mother, 71

directed evolution, 56, 57–58, 59, 61–62, 64–65

and epigenetics, 56, 58, 69–70, 73–75

inheritance of acquired characteristics, 33, 39–40, 47, 54–58, 60, 69–73

hereditary taint, 70–73

maternal inheritance, 56, 58, 70–73

opposition among modern synthesists, 103–105

perfection of the species, 57, 59, 64–65

progressive evolution, 56, 65

and reincarnation, 64, 66–67, 68

and spiritualism, 66, 68

willed evolution, 56, 61, 64–65

neo-Victorian fiction, 33, 76–93, 211

as genre, 76–77, 79–80

as metafiction, 79, 85

and postmodernism, 79, 83–84

neuroaesthetics, 25–26

neuroscience, 54, 167

New Woman fiction, 33, 58

Non, Amy L., 74

Nordmann, Alfred and Arie Rip, 219

novels about genetics, ix, 204, 221

Nussbaum, Martha C., 184

“Little C”, 221

Oppenheim, Janet, 211

Oppenheimer, Robert, 8

organ donation, 184–191

Orphan Black, x, 221

Ortega y Gasset, José, 106, 214

Orwell, George, 98

Animal Farm, 41

“The Decline of the English Murder”, 173

Nineteen-Eighty Four, 165, 215

Otis, Laura, 56, 210

Ourednik, Václav, 41

Oyama, Susan, 20, 57

Ozeki, Ruth, All Over Creation, 204

Pääbo, Svante, 169–170

Padgett, Lewis, Mutant, 125, 127–128

Paley, William, Natural Theology, 86

Paulson, Ronald, 214

Pavlov, Ivan, 114

Peacock, Thomas Love, 202

Picoult, Jodi, My Sister’s Keeper, 184, 221

Pinker, Steven, 37, 116, 159, 218, 220

Plomin, Robert, 169–172

Pohl, Frederik and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants, 125, 220–221

popular culture, xi, 14, 20, 29, 45, 56

Posner, Richard A., 17, 43–45

post-apocalyptic fiction, 163–166, 173–175

posthuman, xvii, 60, 123–124, 131–136, 163, 164, 173–174, 184, 190–192, 218

Powell, Walter W. and Jason Owen-Smith, 205

Powers, Richard, The Gold Bug Variations, xiii, 156–158, 159, 204, 206

President’s Council on Bioethics, 27, 40, 51–52, 124, 159, 207, 220

Prigogine, Ilya, 133

Provine, William, 213

public policy. See also science policy

anticipations, 124–125, 136–144, 219

experts’ role in, 6–7, 9, 205

flawed by misunderstanding literature, 37–40, 50–52, 62, 69, 72–75, 136–144

grant support for, 26

humanities’ role in, xiv, 3, 6–13, 28–30, 207

jeremiads, 124–125, 136–144, 219

literary training for, xiv, 9, 27–28, 201–202

literature’s role in, ix, xii, 5–6, 11–14, 18, 20–25, 27, 36–38, 41–45, 51–52, 68–70, 73–75, 77–81, 104, 106–107, 122, 158–162, 165–166, 170, 178–181, 184–191, 201–202

process of, 6–10, 203, 205

recommendations, 3, 6–7, 36, 41, 200–201, 221

based on literature, 11, 25, 37

science fiction’s role in, xvii, 129–131, 135–136

queer time, See time, queer

racial science, 57, 61–63, 65, 167, 219, 220

Racine, Eric S., 137

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The, 67

Readings, Bill, The University in Ruins, 207

realism, 32–33, 58–59, 79–80, 184, 191, 195, 196

Reeves-Evison, Theo, 218

Regaldo, Antonio, 160

religious views, 31–32, 91–92, 106–107, 175–176, 179, 180, 199, 208, 220

intelligent design, 57–58, 62, 73–75, 103, 104

millenarianism, 31–32, 143–144, 149–150, 158–162, 219

Rescher, Nicholas, 218

Richardson, Dorothy, 109

Richardson, Sarah S., 74–75

Robbins, Bruce, 222

Roof, Judith, 10

Rose, Steven, 20

Rosenthal, Michael, 215

Rothman, David J., 205

Roxburgh, Natalie, 150

Russ, Joanna, 132

Russell, Bertrand, 9, 103–104, 106–108, 110, 115, 213, 214

The Scientific Outlook, 99

Rutherford, Ernest, 102

saltation, 98

Sandberg, Anders, 219

Sandel, Michael J, 138–139

Sargent, Pamela, Cloned Lives, 184

Sarton, May, 214

satire, 84, 163, 164, 166, 214–215

as genre, 109–110

Satterwhite, Marc, 147–148, 155

Savulescu, Julian, 219

scalar thinking, 24, 156–158, 220

Scarry, Elaine, 206

scenario thinking, 137, 218

Schell, Heather, 10, 218, 221

Schell, Jonathan, 197

Schick, Ari, 137, 143

Schmeink, Lars, 150

Schmitt, Cannon, 77

Schulman, Adam, 51

Schwab, Gabriele, 134

science

barriers to humanists, 26

beauty of, 95–96, 104–107

and culture, 38, 69

as demystified, 32, 47–50, 118–119

as dispassionate, 106–107, 113–114, 118–119

distortions of, xi, 4, 20–21, 25, 51, 69–70

as impartial, 106–107, 113–114, 118–119, 205

as instrumental, 106–107

public attitudes toward, 26, 206

disbelief in, 83, 85

as secular, 158–162

and STEM education, 17–18, 42–45

as transdisciplinary, 9

unethical, 173, 176–178

science fiction

1953, 125–131

and bioethics, xvii, 121, 122–123

and eugenics, 126–129, 217

as genre fiction, 125–126, 135–136, 143–144

and ideology, 126, 129–132

and longevity, 125–129

and mutants, 126–129

and the posthuman, 61–62, 121–122, 131–136

and race, 130, 132–134

and telepathy, 61, 127–129, 131, 135, 217

Victorian, 33, 60–62

and world-building, 135–136

science fiction films, 121, 182–184

science policy, ix, xiv, 6–13, 26–30, 205, See also public policy

science studies, 13–18

Sebald, W. G. Austerlitz, 193

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 154

Seed, David, 217

Selin, Cynthia, 149–150

sensation fiction, 33, 58, 85

Sexton, James, 213, 215

Shah, Hetan, 207

Shakespeare, William, 27, 100

Shapin, Steven, 205

Shaw, George Bernard, Back to Methuselah, 103–104

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, x, 37, 39, 97, 191, 222

Shteyngart, Gary, Super Sad True Love Story, 102, 163–166, 180, 204, 220

Shute, Nevil, On the Beach, 220

Sidney, Philip, Defense of Poesy, 78

Silver, Lee, 142

Simpsons, The, “Send in the Clones”, 182–183, 221

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 27

Skrzynia, C., 157

Slobogin, Christopher, 219, 220

Slonczewski, Joan and Michael Levy, 131, 150

Smeele, Wietske, 58

Smith, E. E., 128

Smith, Philip E., 217

Smith, Zadie, White Teeth, 204

Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty, 213

Snaza, Nathan, 222

Snow, C. P., ix, 38, 42

social Darwinism, 47–48, 64, 89–90, 113, 126, 167, 217

social science methods, 14–15, 21, 183–184

Spencer, Herbert, 65

Squier, Susan M., 212, 215

Staley, Jessica, 210

stem cell research, 41, 115, 159, 183

Stephenson, Neal, Snow Crash, 221

Sterling, Bruce, 133–134

Stern, Alexandra Minna, 126

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 62, 65

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 39, 59

Stiles, Anne, 208

Stock, Gregory, 120, 125, 132, 142, 143–144, 216, 219

Stone, R., 168

Stott, Rebecca, 67

Strachey, Lytton, 108

Sturgeon, Theodore, 121, 122, 125, 128, 216

Suk, J., 180

surface reading, xv, 14–15, 69, 206

Surrogates, 216

Suvin, Darko, 122, 138

Tandy-Connor, Stephany, 161

Taylor, Charles, 207

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 73

Terry, Sharon, 198

Teukolsky, Rachel, 211

Thacker, Eugene, 221

Thody, Philip, 213

Thompson, Harry, This Thing of Darkness, 77

Thomson, J. J., 102

thrillers, 135, 218

Thurtle, Philip, 10

time, xii, 18–20, 189, 195–197

and climate change, 32, 150, 154–155

cyclical, xii, 18, 31–32, 47–48, 90–92, 175–176

deep time, 31–33, 47–48, 67, 90–92

dual, 18, 31–32, 104–107, 147–162, 175–176, 189

genome time, xii–xiii, 32, 104–107, 176, 197

and fractals, 156–158

as millenarian, 143–144

as scalar, 156–158

legendary, 151–152, 219

linear, xii, 18, 67, 90–92, 147–162, 175–176

and memory, 67, 90–93

in the modern synthesis, 104–106

queer, 150–156

synchronic, 147–162

timelessness, 18–19, 67

and trauma, 67–68

transdisciplinarity, 3, 5, 9, 10, 26–27, 29, 205, 207

transhumanism, 120, 137, 143, 163, 221

Trollope, Anthony, 33, 58

Tsao, Tiffany, 222

Tuchman, Gaye, Wannabe U, 207

Tucker, Frank H., 217

Tucker, Herbert, 211

Turner, Stephanie, 10

two cultures, ix, 5, 18, 37–38, 41–45

Uchida, Nobuko, 41

utopia, 33, 58, 112–114, 210, 215

as genre, 112–113

utopian fiction, 59–62

Valente, Joseph, 42, 209

Van Vogt, A. E., 121, 125, 127–128

Varley, John, 132–133

Vatican, 199

Vayena, Effy and Alessandro Blasimme, 205

Veblen, Thorstein, 205

Venter, Craig, 199

Victorian period, 10, 31–33, 84, 91–92, 158–159, 192–197

attitudes toward women, 58, 60–61, 67, 70–75

and genre fiction, 32–33, 53, 58–59, 62

and realism, 32–33, 58–59

and science, 37–38, 42–46, 79–83, 92–93

Vint, Sherryl, 10

Wade, Nicholas, 7, 36

Wailoo, Keith, 207

Wald, Elijah, 207

Wald, Priscilla, 10, 12, 13, 206, 218

Waldahl, Ragnar, 26

Waldby, Catherine, 189

Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 214

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 57, 76–77, 81–83, 85, 211

Wallace, Molly, 218

Ward, Megan, 210

Watson, J. B., Behaviorism, 114, 213

Watson, James, 7, 95–96

Watson, James and Francis Crick, 125, 129, 175, 217

Weber, Max, 103

Webster, Gerry, 57

Wegner, Phillip, 98–99, 212

Weinbaum, Alys Eve, 10

Weinberger, Sara and Dov Greenbaum, 221

Weismann, August, 40, 57, 209

Weldon, Fay, The Cloning of Joanna May, 184

Wellcome Trust, 199

Wells, H. G., 35–53, 66, 108, 109, 124, 126, 208, 209, 212

Anticipations, 44

as anti-modernist, 42, 44, 51

and education, 45, 209

on ethical science, 37, 39–41, 48

and eugenics, 44

The Island of Doctor Moreau, 35–41, 45, 48–53, 77, 174–175, 177

as pro-science, 37, 44

and the research university, 44

and the technocratic elite, 44

and Thomas Huxley, 38, 42–43, 45–53

The Time Machine, 31, 48, 52, 142

and the two cultures, 41–45

on unethical science, 39–40, 45

and vivisection, 39

The War of the Worlds, 52, 129

and the world state, 44

Whitehead, Anne, 196

Whitehead, Colson, Zone One, 220

Wilbanks, Rebecca, 10

Wilde, Oscar, Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 67

Williams, John R., 218

Williams, Raymond, 84, 119

Williams-Ellis, Lady Amabel Strachey, 109

Wilson, David Sloan, 211

Wilson, E. O., 84

Winickoff, David, 180

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 172

Wolfe, Cary, 123, 191, 216

Wolfe, Gary K., 125

Wollaeger, Mark, 214

Woolf, Virginia, 108–109, 189

Wordsworth, William, 78–79, 84, 192–193, 197

World Health Organization, 199

Wright, Sewall, 97, 102, 213

Wuchty, Stefan, 205

Wyndham, John, The Day of the Triffids, 165, 174–175

Yan, C., 167

Yaszek, Lisa and Jason W. Ellis, 150

Yeo, Richard, 209

Zamyatin, Yevgeny, We, 102

Zemka, Sue, 208

Zola, Émile, 113, 215

Zwart, Hub, 10, 12

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