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  • Chapter 2 - Victorian Chimeras

  • from Part II - Deep Time
  • Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    Literature, Science, and Public Policy
    Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 35-53
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    Often misread by policy analysts who oppose stem cell research, H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau actually presents a balanced view of science, warning against unethical scientists but suggesting ways in which the creation of chimeras would be ethically acceptable. Wells’s novel articulates principles that foreshadow the conditions bioethicists today have proposed for research on human-non-human chimeras, research that could lead to advances in treating Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, organ transplants, and more. Wells’s relation to his mentor, Thomas Huxley, dramatizes the importance of reading literary works in historical perspective and sheds light on disciplinary specialization and the two-culture split.