Smith, Andrew James(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-04)
The phenomenon of the homunculus as an aspect of creating life in the laboratory is a documented attribute of Western premodern and medieval Arabic alchemy. Early alchemical texts can be seen to reveal the archetypes and ...
Smith, Andrew James; Dreyer, Elfriede(Unisa Press, 2009)
In this article Patricia Piccinini's We are Family of 2003 is considered in terms of the concept of the genetic homunculus, which can be understood as the product of artifice. The genetically engineered human being is ...
