Bioethics | Genomics, genetics, and the problem of the commodity form
The invisible hand. Credit: kybernetick.free Bioethics and capitalism NEW ‘GENETIC’ DISORDER LINKED TO POLITICAL ECONOMIC MYOPIA Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | June 16, 2014 This creative approach [seeks to] … capture the drama of DNA in genomic narratives that can be imagined and shared to illuminate our gaze on the people, the helices, and the future within. Karen H. Rothenberg and Lynn Wein Bush, The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics (2014) Of course I am using irony and hyperbole in the subhead for political economic myopia as a genetic disease. But that really is not much different from the discursive strategies used to construct genomic narratives over the past quarter century, with the presumption usually being that these “illuminate” things like “the future within”. There is little evidence to suggest that scientists may harbor a gene mutation that expresses as an inability to understand capitalism as a social construct. There is no known genetic basis that can explain what l...