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Article: The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life.
- Article from:
- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
- Author:
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Exploding the Gene Myth and The Human Body Shop address the incursion of the marketplace into the human body. Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald focus on the politics of genetic manipulation from a biological perspective. Andrew Kimbrell addresses the commodification of the human body from a legal standpoint. Both are dedicated to a new understanding of "progress" in the medical and laboratory sciences.
Exploding the Gene Myth describes the manipulation of genetic information by scientists, physicians, employers, insurance companies and law enforcers, for a general public without biological training. The authors warn of the dangers of commercialization and corporatization ...
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