Abstract:This essay examines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a piece of literature that captures an epistemic transition in biomedical practices from healing a diseased body to controlling and engineering a human body, anticipating the modern medical practices of our bioengineered era. The process of artificially engineering a bioscientific creature by gathering materials from anonymous sources, and Victor Frankenstein’s ability to pre-select the physical features of the Creature, anticipate the baby-making procedures practiced in the domain of artificial reproductive technology (ART). This essay aims to foreground how the novel offers a fictional engagement with bioethical crises triggered by ART developments that have problematized our bionormative notion of the family as a heterosexual unit.

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维克多的后代：生物工程时代的预感

摘要：本文将玛丽雪莱的《科学怪人》作为一篇文学作品，它捕捉了生物医学实践从治愈患病身体到控制和改造人体的认知转变，预测了我们生物工程时代的现代医学实践。通过从匿名来源收集材料来人工设计生物科学生物的过程，以及维克多弗兰肯斯坦预先选择生物物理特征的能力，预计在人工生殖技术 (ART) 领域中实施的婴儿制造程序。本文旨在突出这部小说如何虚构涉及由 ART 发展引发的生物伦理危机，这些危机使我们将家庭作为异性恋单位的生物规范概念产生了问题。