Sara Golru explores the Australian life insurance industry’s treatment of genetic information in the underwriting process. The Australian life insurance industry has struggled to keep up with scientific and international legal advancements, resulting in an increase in the potential for genetic...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a dark picture of a future society that deifies scientific progress. In Huxley's "Utopia," science controls individual opportunity and, hence, destiny. Heredity shapes the individual's place in society, so that from the moment of conception, a person's...