During the past three decades historians have conceived new ways of thinking about the pre-revolutionary polity and public life and have emphasised its participatory and semi-republican or quasi-republican elements.

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In addition to scientists, a number of artists and cultural critics – some of whom are now proudly branding themselves as biopunks – are also sounding warnings about the importance of giving the public a voice in how their bodies' genomic information gets used. […] Not every bioinformatics researcher necessarily considers herself to be pursuing the same cause as self-described biopunks, but together, they may represent a movement in the making, one dedicated to the proposition that the information that defines humanity is too precious to be private.

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