Louisiana Law Review Volume 59 | Number 4 Symposium on Harmless Error - Part I Summer 1999 Double-Take: A Second Look at Cloning, Science Fiction and Law Christine Corcos Louisiana State University Law Center Isabel Corcos Brian Stockhoff Repository Citation Christine Corcos, Isabel Corcos, and Brian Stockhoff, Double-Take: A Second Look at Cloning, Science Fiction and Law, 59 La. L. Rev. (1999) Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/lalrev/vol59/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at LSU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Louisiana Law Review by an authorized editor of LSU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Double-Take: A Second Look at Cloning, Science Fiction and Law Christine Corcos" Isabel Corcos" Brian Stockho)fY TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ..................................... 1042 II. Copies' Rights and Copy Wrongs: The Fear of Clones in Popular Culture .................................. 1046 III. The Basic Biology of Cloning ......................... 1048 IV. Social Commentary and Science: The Reproduction of Human Life Through Cloning as Seen in the Media ............... 1050 A. Social Commentary in Science Fiction ................ 1055 B. The Fear of Aliens ............................. 1057 C. Images of the Mad Scientist and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: Uncontrolled Experimentation and Unintended Consequences in Science Fiction .............................. 1059 D. Truth and Consequences: Specific Images of Cloning, Genetic Manipulation, Mad Scientists, and Unintended Consequences in Science and Science Fiction ....................... 1066 V. Mirror, Mirror: Some Examples of Images of Cloning in Popular Culture and Science Fiction .......................... 1072 A. Aliens, American Society, and the "Invasion Narratives" of the 1950s .....................................