Introduction -- FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE -- The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? -- Ghostly Presences: The Case of Bertha Mason -- The Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical Dilemma in Law and Literature -- Vida Interminable: Patients and Family Members Between the Right to Live and the Obligation Not to Die -- Reading Beyond the Ratio: Searching for the Subtext in the "Enforced Caesarean" Cases -- FROM A LITERARY PERSPECTIVE -- Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge -- Shaping Personhood: Problems of Subjectivity and the Self in Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing -- On the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self -- The Beyond: Science and Law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells -- Bio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Ninenteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature -- Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelley Jackson's Hypertext Patchwork Girl -- One Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two Nameless Beings -- A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: Weak Thoughts Regarding Ethics, Literature and Medicine -- Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen's One True Thing -- "So what is a human being?" An Exploration of Personhood Through Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods -- The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things -- "Murderous Creators": How Far Can Authors Go? -- Fay Weldon's The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic Surgery as a Social Mask of Personhood -- APPENDIX -- Mapping the Law: Reading Old Maps of Strasbourg as Representing and Constituting Legal Spaces and Places.