Brush up on your Narrative Genetics from the Couch

Pop culture's imagination of genetic mutations have brought us the X-Men, Aeon Flux, Star Trek, and many more.

Here's some books and movies with genetic themes that got us talking, with various degrees of adoration and criticism, during Patricia Wald's visit.

What are you watching? What should we be reading? Feel free to comment on this blog.

Movies:
X Men (and X Men II)
Aeon Flux
Boys From Brazil
Island
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Star Trek
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Journey of a Man (Documentary)
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Frankenstein
Multiplicity
Minority Report
28 Days Later, Weeks, Months etc.
Godsend
Twilight of the Golds
Sound and Fury (Documentary)
Repro Films: Species, Aliens, Hand Maid's Tale

Books:
Never Let Me Go
Lilith's Brood
Left Hand of Darkness
The Lovers
The Century After Beatrice

Books We Recommend

Lori B. Andrews Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics. New York, Columbia, 2001.

Lennard J. Davis (ed). The Disability Studies Reader (Second Edition). New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006.

Jurgen Habermas. The Future of Human Nature. Molton, MA, Polity Press, 2003.

Donna J. Haraway. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora's Baby. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Bill McKibben. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New York: Owl Books, 2003.

Eric Parens and Adrienne Asch (eds.) Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007.

Penny Wolfson, Moonrise, St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Genetics, Disability, and Deafness, John Vickrey Van Cleve, Editor, Gallaudet University Press 2004