Ulysses and the Fate of Frozen Embryos — Reproduction, Research, or Destruction?
- 3 August 2000
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 343 (5) , 373-376
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200008033430519
Abstract
On his 10-year voyage back to Ithaca from the Trojan War, Ulysses was warned by Circe to take precautions if he wanted to hear the Sirens' transfixing song, or there would be “no sailing home for him, no wife rising to meet him, /no happy children beaming up at their father's face.”1 Ulysses accordingly ordered his men to stop their ears with beeswax and bind him firmly to the mast and instructed them that if he gestured to be set free, they should stick to the original agreement and bind him tighter still. Making an agreement that has as a . . .Keywords
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