생명과학기술, 생명윤리, 그리고 생태학적 관점의 관계 고찰 - 로이스 로리의 『더 기버』를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between bio-technology and bio-ethics through ecological perspectives and to find examples in literature for the inter-relationships and activating public's ethical discourse. This study explores complementary relationship between bio-technology and bio-ethics because if our human society ignores bio-technology's positive fruits due to some faults, it will lack elements of human's fundamental quality of life as well as the uncertainty of our survival. Therefore, our human society needs various resources to sustain its quality of life through diverse discourses, from different viewpoints such as ethics and literature as well as science- technology. This study tries to explore the relationship between technological effectiveness and biodiversity and to connect them to bio-ethics' possibility based on an ecological perspective. To find the social control's problems of human society, First, this study analyzes biodiversity decreases. Also, it relates biodiversity to the absence of bio-ethic consciousness. With these theoretical basis, this study suggests that Lois Lowry's work, The Giver, exemplifies inter- relationships among bio-technology, bio-ethics, and ecological perspectives. The reason to find this inter-relationship in the literature is that the literary works can easily connect each disciples and interpret each other. In addition, because literature can also have relations with the pubic audience, it can widen some discourses in the public. With this interdisciplinary aspect among bio-tech, bio-ethics, and literature, this study would like to reveal new approaches to a variety of problems in human society, to have some discussion, and to find proper reponses for these problems.