Bioethics and medical issues in literature / Mahala Yates Stripling.

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.

xxviii, 224 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: [193]-198.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or, The modern Prometheus (1818) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's daughter" (1844) -- Aldous Huxley's Brave new world (1932) -- Robin Cook's Coma (1977) -- Albert Camus's The plague (1946) -- David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' boys (1990) -- Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1962) -- Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy (1992) -- John Updike's Rabbit at rest (1990) -- Margaret Edson's Wit (1999).