eds. Bogumiła Suwara ‒ Jana Tomašovičová

The interdiscursive communication between literature and bioethics has gone through significant changes under the influence of dynamic bio-scientific advancements. The articles in this issue document the shift from the traditional portrayal of the doctor-patient relationship to new themes inspired by contemporary bioethical challenges, including regenerative medicine, gene editing, cloning, human enhancement, and euthanasia, thus demonstrating the reciprocal transfer of literary and bioethical discourses. Through the emergence of this new interdiscursive space, literary and artistic representations are enriching the rationalist ethical rhetoric and normative argumentation with many humanistic aspects, including a narrative approach to ethics, specifically bioethics.

Articles:

BOGUMIŁA SUWARA ‒ JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
The interdiscursive communication between literature and bioethics
SAJJAD GHEYTASI
Unveiling the subversive potential: Challenging dominant ideological discourses
in selected literary texts
IVAN LACKO
Dignity, healing, and virtue: Bioethical concerns in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never let me go
TOMÁŠ KÁROLY
The bioethics of coexistence with robots today and in the sci-fi future
ADAM ŠKROVAN
Bioethics and genetic engineering in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
MARIUSZ PISARSKI
Ripperdocs and game makers: Bioethics in the dystopian future of (post)cyberpunk
fiction
PETER SÝKORA
Bioethics of the human body in Michael Crichton’s Next and Rebecca Skloot’s
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
JANA TOMAŠOVIČOVÁ
Význam naratívneho prístupu v bioetike
BOGUMIŁA SUWARA
Rozmanitosť života, a najmä jeho konečnosti, na príklade vybraných diel
CLAUS-MICHAEL ORT
Text – poznanie – prax: Za možnosť literárnej vedy vychádzať z vedomostnej sociológie

The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.