Table of Contents

Birth of Frankenstein
Frankenstein, the modern Prometheus
The celuloid monster
Promise and peril

About the Author

Susan E. Lederer, who was the visiting curator for the National Library of Medicine's original exhibit on Frankenstein, is the author of Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the SecondWorld War. She is an associate professor of the history of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and in Department of History at Yale University.