ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to articulate how the bio-object of genes, as a new form of life in the biosciences, has been integrated in European insurance markets. With the advent of the Human Genome Project and the introduction of molecular medicine, genes have shown their appearance in new ways into society, as in the European insurance industry. The chapter distinguishes two different moments in process of taming genes in the zone of European insurance and its respective re-configurations of solidarity. The first stage looks at the introduction of genes in insurance markets and the specific way this form of life has been made governable through the development of Genetic Non-Discrimination Acts (GNDAs) in European countries. The second stage examines how this new regime of GNDAs-in-insurance is working in practice and explores its real-life consequences. Genes have been tamed in the zone of European insurance by an alignment of genetic and economic determinism, captured in the trope of genetic discrimination.
