Bioethics and Biopolitics
VIDEOS:
Whose Values and Principles in a New Biopolitics?
Michele Goodwin, The Tarrytown Meetings, 2011
Doing Biopolitics, Inventing Democracy
David Winickoff, The Tarrytown Meetings, 2011
Closing Plenary
Patricia Williams, The Tarrytown Meetings, 2012
Reflections on Themes
Shelia Jasanoff, The Tarrytown Meetings, 2010
ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS:
Your Body, Their Property
Osagie K. Obasogie, Boston Review
September 30th, 2013
Who should own DNA? All of us
[Op-Ed]
Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar, Los Angeles Times
April 12th, 2013
Science and Society: Time to act on biotech's human repercussions
Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle
July 23rd, 2003
Biopolitics
[PDF]
Marcy Darnovsky and Emily Smith Beitiks, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th edition, 2014
An entry from the newly released Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Bruce Jennings, editor) looks at the emerging use of the term biopolitics to address broad social and political dynamics.
To Test or Not to Test? When and How Should UC Berkeley Test its Incoming Students’ DNA, if at all?
Charis Thompson, 2012
UC Berkeley, Don't Send Those Swabs
by Jesse Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle
June 7th, 2010
VIDEO:
Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]
Francis Fukuyama, Franco Furger, Richard Hayes, William A. Galston, Shannon Brownlee
March 2nd, 2007
BOOKS:
Genetic Explanations
Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, published Feb 2013
No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance.
Sequence, The Silent Assassin, and Immunity
Lori Andrews
Taking a break from decoding the genetic sequence of a tropical disease, Alex investigates the case of a DEA agent who died a gruesome and unexplained death on a Mob stakeout. Within hours, Alex tracks similar deaths throughout the Southwest. Is it a naturally occurring epidemic—or has a lethal bioweapon been released in the United States?