This article attempts to put developments in molecular biology into the
broader context of disability rights and the relationship between
disabled people and medical science. It includes a critique of biologi
cal reduclionism and of the role of the media in inflating 'back-to-
basics biology'. The article suggests that disabled people have not
been consulted or involved in debates around the new genetics and
that a wider discussion of these developments is urgently needed.
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