Wild Bioassumptions?
In the following article, Killian C Quigley considers the power, potential, and responsibilities that come with the increase of bioscience knowledge. By comparing Huxley’s Brave New World to Nikolas Rose’s The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century to Frank Bruni’s Genetic or Not, Gay Won’t Go Away, Quigley offers different viewpoints on a topic that has come to be more and more relevant as our knowledge of the biological sciences grows: what can or cannot be attributed to biology? Is biological determinism an answer to controversial issues, or is it the ethics that ultimately have the final say?
