his book is a thorough examination of Genome Finland, outlined in the extract above. By ‘Genome Finland’ we refer to the predominant presentation of Finnish genetics as a success story, and Finland as a milieu of unique excellence for biomedical research. In this book, we study the content of the success story and the image, how they came about, and what lies benea…
In what follows I discuss unreadability and its relation to reading and interpretation of experimental literature. What precisely does unread-ability mean? Where can it be located? How far does it impede reading and can it be overcome? I want to address these questions within the frameworks of narratology and literary pragmatics, and suggest that in som…