TY  - GEN
AU  - Guston,David H.
AU  - Finn,Ed
AU  - Robert,Jason Scott
AU  - Guston,David H.
AU  - Finn,Ed
AU  - Robert,Jason Scott
TI  - Frankenstein : Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
SN  - mitpress/10815.001.0001
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Classic science fiction
KW  - science fiction
KW  - gothic
KW  - horror
KW  - European
KW  - British
KW  - literature
KW  - fiction
KW  - cautionary tale
KW  - STEM
KW  - science
KW  - bioethics
KW  - classic
KW  - bicentennial
KW  - Josephine Johnston
KW  - Cory Doctorow
KW  - Jane Maienschein
KW  - Kate MacCord
KW  - Alfred Nordmann
KW  - Elizabeth Bear
KW  - Anne K. Mellor
KW  - Heather E. Douglas
KW  - Frankenstein
KW  - Creature
KW  - Monster
KW  - Mary Shelley
KW  - Makers
KW  - women in science
KW  - science and anti-science
KW  - values in science
KW  - responsible innovation
KW  - Industrial Revolution
KW  - Mary Wollstonecraft
KW  - William Godwin
KW  - Percy Bysshe Shelley
KW  - Galvanism
KW  - Mount Tambora
KW  - Myths
KW  - Two Cultures
KW  - epistolary novel
KW  - Victor Frankenstein
KW  - Geneva
KW  - Prometheus
KW  - Arctic
KW  - Lord Byron
KW  - John Polidori
KW  - ghost stories
KW  - Revisions
KW  - Electricity
KW  - Lightning
KW  - Vitalism
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Extinction
KW  - Magnetism
KW  - Moral responsibility
KW  - Legal responsibility
KW  - Social responsibility
KW  - Consequences
KW  - Obligations
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Maker Culture
KW  - DIY
KW  - Technology Adjacent Possible
KW  - Facebook
KW  - Surveillance
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Fetal development
KW  - Epigenesis
KW  - Embryo
KW  - Person
KW  - Technoscience
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - uncanny           valley
KW  - animation
KW  - complexity
KW  - Morality
KW  - Monstrosity
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Otherness
KW  - Gender
KW  - Nature
KW  - Domestic Affections
KW  - Women
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Technical Sweetness
KW  - Los Alamos
KW  - Trinity Test
KW  - Scientific Responsibility
KW  - Nuclear Weapons
KW  - adjacent possible
KW  - synthetic biology
KW  - robotics
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, “the modern Prometheus,” tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms—as a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fiction—Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript—meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's preeminent authorities on the text—with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann
UR  - http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533287
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77928
ER  -