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200 Years of Frankenstein

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Ony Frankenstein

Frankenstein permeates so much of culture for 200 years. What is it about that story which means so many things to so many people? It's partly the social responsibility of science, and scientists considering ethic of care versus an ethic of control. The prefix frankenstein has been applied to all our anxieties about scientific innovation - distilled into a metaphor.

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