Contents

Chapter 1 Orphan Black and Bioethics

Chapter 2 Personhood and Human Clones:
The Orphans of Project Leda

Chapter 3 Our Fears of Clones:
And Their Reflections in Literature and Film

Chapter 4 “These Crippled and Distorted Men”:
The Island of Dr. Moreau and the Scientists of Orphan Black

Chapter 5 “Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est”:
The Scientific Pedigree of Cloning

Chapter 6 What’s Wrong with the Ledas?

Chapter 7 The Ethics of Synthetic Biology

Chapter 8 Orphan Black and the Ethics of Patenting Human Life

Chapter 9 “Things Which Have Never Been Done”:
Eugenics and Clonal Dynasties

Chapter 10 Nature, Nurture, and Clonal Identity

Chapter 11 Are the Ledas Really
Genetically Identical?

Chapter 12 Sexuality, Gender Identity,
and Orphan Black

Chapter 13 Kendall Malone Chimeras,
and Sexual Anomalies at Birth

Chapter 14 Would Knowing You Were a Clone
Damage Your Sense of Identity?

Chapter 15 Kant’s Personhood and the Formation
of a Clone’s Identity

Chapter 16 “When Did I Become Us?”:
Group Identity as a Leda or as a Castor

Chapter 17 Stealing and Swapping Identities:
Twins and Clones

Chapter 18 Clones and Free Will

Chapter 19 Helena, Freud, Henrik, and Foucault

Chapter 20 Top Five Ideas for Future
Orphan Black Episodes

References

Acknowledgments

About the Author