Capitalism | Genetics and Literature

The Laws of Life

• July 13, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Ethics of science
Tags: biotechnology, biovalue, Capitalism, Catherine Waldby, Dr. Golde, ecology, John Moore, Melinda Cooper, Moore v. Regents of the University of California, neoliberalism, reanimation, Robert Mitchell, speculation, Terrence Rafferty, tissue, tissue economies, waste, zombies

Flotsam and Chaos: Things in Oryx and Crake

• July 5, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Genetic engineering, Oryx and Crake
Tags: Capitalism, commodity, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, post-apocalyptic world, things

And the Home of the Brave [New World]

• January 28, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Brave New World, Novels, Science and humanities
Tags: America, Brave New World, Capitalism, dystopia, predestination, social problems, socioeconomic problems

Samad: Selfish or Justified?

• April 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Religion and genetics, White Teeth
Tags: Capitalism, ethics, White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Money in the Test Tubes

• February 1, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Science and humanities
Tags: Capitalism, gene patenting, Genetic determinism, human genome project

Freedom is Unfreedom: How to avoid headaches when conceptual boundaries dissolve

• March 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Science and humanities
Tags: analogy, biology, Capitalism, Charles Dickens, Dickens, disease, epidemics, freedom, linguistics, Little Dorrit, money, Reginia Gagnier, unfreedom

The Commodification of the Genetic Code

• February 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Ethics of science, Genetic engineering, Medicine and literature, Oryx and Crake, Posthuman
Tags: Capitalism, child pornography, commodification, DNA, ethics, Feudalism, Genes, genetics, Marxism, NOVA, Oryx and Crake, Ownership, prostitution, The Human Genome Project

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