1. Articles and Presentations
2. Videos
3. Books

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

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VIDEOS:

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]
 Francis Fukuyama, Franco Furger, Richard Hayes, William A. Galston, Shannon Brownlee
March 2nd, 2007

Whose Values and Principles in a New Biopolitics?
Michele Goodwin, Tarrytown 2011

Doing Biopolitics, Inventing Democracy
David Winickoff, Tarrytown 2011

Closing Plenary
Patricia Williams, Tarrytown 2012

Reflections on Themes
Shelia Jasanoff, Tarrytown 2010

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]
 Francis Fukuyama, Franco Furger, Richard Hayes, William A. Galston, Shannon Brownlee
March 2nd, 2007

Interview with Harriet Washington: Talking Biopolitics
Award-winning author Harriet Washington's new book reveals just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life, commodifying the body, and compromising medical ethics. It provides a crucial human dimension to an often abstract debate
May 9, 2012

Donna Dickenson Web Interview
Donna Dickenson - July 16, 2013 Talking Biopolitics Web Interview.

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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?

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