2018, ISBN: 9780300240450

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves deeply into the nature of consciousness while raising many of the ethical and existential issues facing sci… Mehr…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves deeply into the nature of consciousness while raising many of the ethical and existential issues facing scientists today A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, C&eacute;dric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, C&eacute;dric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it. Haddad explores the confusion and insignificance of a single consciousness before experience and identity: What is a head without a body? What or who is a lover with another&rsquo;s body? The gruesome transplant (detailed in a manner that highlights the author&rsquo;s own diligent research and comprehension) parallels other ways humanity mutates nature globally; the novel is a provocative and timely allegory&mdash;a work of dystopian fantasy. [PU: Yale University Press], Seiten: 232, Yale University Press, 2018<

2018, ISBN: 9780300240450

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Yale University Press], Yale University Press, 2018