genome – On the Human http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human a project of the National Humanities Center Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:39:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Commercial Genome Reading: follow-up http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/04/commercial-genome-reading-follow-up/ http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/04/commercial-genome-reading-follow-up/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:15:32 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/humannature/?p=198 Thanks so much to everyone who has written in! There is a lot of food for thought in your postings, far too much to be digested in a short conclusion. I shall try to absorb them in the future rather than give half-baked comments now.

One tiny correction: several readers picked up on the “middle-class”

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]]> http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/04/commercial-genome-reading-follow-up/feed/ 1 Commercial genome reading http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/03/current-controversies-ian-hacking/ http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/03/current-controversies-ian-hacking/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:07 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/humannature/?p=176 “What will commercial genome-reading – from cheap 23andMe to costly but complete Knome – do to middle-class conceptions of personal identity?”

Say the name Knome out loud, not in one syllable but as two:– “know-me.” The corporation unabashedly offers “Know thyself” at the masthead of its Home Page.

I accept the implied invitation to connect

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