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BIOETHICS OF THE HUMAN BODY IN MICHAEL CRICHTON’S NEXT AND REBECCA SKLOOT’S THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

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Sýkora P.
World Literature Studies
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2024
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vol. 16
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issue 2
66 – 77
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In this essay, I use two literary works from two distinct genres and with two very different narratives – a satirical techno-thriller and a historical non-fiction piece – to show how they can both convey the same bioethical message – donation of human body parts – to their audience. The two books I examine and contrast here are Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) and Michael Crichton’s satirical techno-thriller Next (2006). The main question this article will try to answer is obviously not why The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a carefully researched nonfiction book, belongs on the list of essential works on bioethics , but rather why Next, a satirical techno-thriller that continuously blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, belongs on the list as well.
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