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    Genetic information has a particularly acute impact on se... — Carmelics
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    Genetic information has a particularly acute impact on self-identity and self-understanding.

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    • 1.Genetic information is socially represented as the most fundamental property of the individual.
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    • 2.Information framed as most fundamental to one's body shapes how individuals understand and identify themselves.
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    • 1.Narrative self-constitution, not biological facts, is the primary mechanism of identity formation (MacIntyre, Ricoeur).
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    • 2.Genetic information is a third-personal scientific description, categorically distinct from the first-personal perspective constitutive of self-understanding.
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    • 3.Therefore, genetic data can only shape self-identity mediately, through prior interpretive frameworks, not acutely or directly.
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    • 1.The social representation of genetics as 'fundamental' is a historically contingent ideology (genetic essentialism), not a metaphysical fact (Nelkin & Lindee).
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    • 2.A claim that information shapes identity acutely cannot derive its force solely from the cultural prestige that information happens to currently enjoy.
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    Besides these attempts to reduce species to beanbags of genes, genetic reductionism enters in attempts to explain cellular or organismal properties solely in terms of genes, or entire organisms in terms of genomes. Gilbert (1992) endorses an essentialism of this sort as well: “The information carried on the DNA, that genetic information passed down from our parents,” he writes, “is the most fundamental property of the body” (p. 83), so much so, in fact, that “one will be able to pull a CD out of
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