Human cloning
Kevin Reese
kreese at EMAIL.UNC.EDU
Thu Jun 12 20:59:26 UTC 2008
Vladimir Savchenko's science fiction novel "Otkrytie sebia" (1967) was
translated as "Self-discovery" by McMillan in 1979 as part of their
McMillan's best of Soviet Science fiction series. Antonina Bouis was
the translator.
The novel is about a cyberneticist who invents a computer that is
capable of producing copies of humans, which leads to many interesting
moral conundrums. It is considered one of the key scifi works of the
post-war period.
Kevin Reese
Quoting Katherine Bowers <k-bowers at NORTHWESTERN.EDU>:
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> A colleague in Life Sciences and I are working on designing a course that
> deals with links between scientific research, political ideology, and
> ethics. We are looking at issues that appear in Russian novels and films
> and how the same issues are discussed/debated in contemporary
> research circles.
>
> My colleague is very interested in doing a unit on human cloning. We are
> looking for a Russian text or film that would be accessible to
> non-Russian-speaking freshmen to fit into this unit. We are already using
> the two Bulgakov texts ("Fatal Eggs", "Heart of a Dog") in other units of
> course, and I have already been thinking about possibly using the film "4",
> but am afraid it may be too strange for college freshmen without much
> knowledge of Russian history/literature/culture/cinema to get their minds
> around.
>
> Let me know if you have any suggestions. Really, any suggestions at all,
> even if not directly about human cloning (but somewhat related), will be
> helpful! Thanks!
>
> Katia Bowers
>
> k-bowers at northwestern.edu
>
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