Frankenstein Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

• Other Authors: Guston, David H. (Editor), Finn, Ed (Editor), Robert, Jason Scott (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2017
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic science fiction; science fiction; gothic; horror; European; British; literature; fiction; cautionary tale; STEM; science; bioethics; classic; bicentennial; Josephine Johnston; Cory Doctorow; Jane Maienschein; Kate MacCord; Alfred Nordmann; Elizabeth Bear; Anne K. Mellor; Heather E. Douglas; Frankenstein; Creature; Monster; Mary Shelley; Makers; women in science; science and anti-science; values in science; responsible innovation; Industrial Revolution; Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Galvanism; Mount Tambora; Myths; Two Cultures; epistolary novel; Victor Frankenstein; Geneva; Prometheus; Arctic; Lord Byron; John Polidori; ghost stories; Revisions; Electricity; Lightning; Vitalism; Chemistry; Extinction; Magnetism; Moral responsibility; Legal responsibility; Social responsibility; Consequences; Obligations; Ethics; Maker Culture; DIY; Technology Adjacent Possible; Facebook; Surveillance; Aristotle; Fetal development; Epigenesis; Embryo; Person; Technoscience; Alchemy; uncanny valley; animation; complexity; Morality; Monstrosity; Christianity; Otherness; Gender; Nature; Domestic Affections; Women; Sexuality; Technical Sweetness; Los Alamos; Trinity Test; Scientific Responsibility; Nuclear Weapons; adjacent possible; synthetic biology; robotics
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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 social...