"Be ready against cancer, now": direct-to-consumer advertising for genetic testing [0.03%]
“防癌于未然，现在就开始吧”——基因检测的直接面对消费者广告
Bryn William-Jones
Bryn William-Jones
A recent addition to the debate about the benefits and harms of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of medicines and pharmaceuticals is a growing critique of DTC marketing and sale of genetic tests. Academic and policy literatures explorin...
Mette Nordahl Svendsen,Lene Koch
Mette Nordahl Svendsen
This article explores the process through which the advances of genetic research are incorporated into public health care in Denmark. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in cancer genetic counselling, the implementation of new medical advance...
Locating tissue collections in tissue economies--deriving value from biomedical research [0.03%]
组织收藏在组织经济中的定位——从生物医学研究中获取价值
Aaro Tupasela
Aaro Tupasela
This paper examines diverging notions of value in the use of tissue sample collections and other information resources using a case study of hereditary colorectal cancer research in Finland. Recent science and technology policies that empha...
Sivia Barnoy,Malka Ehrenfeld,Rina Sharon et al.
Sivia Barnoy et al.
The success of mammal cloning in 1997 has brought the issue of human cloning into public discussion. Human cloning has several aspects and potential applications for use in both reproductive and non-reproductive matters. The aim of this stu...
Dirk Stemerding,Annemiek Nelis
Dirk Stemerding
In this article we discuss the development of a practice of screening, preventive treatment, and presymptomatic testing for individuals at risk of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP), a specific hereditary predisposition for colon cancer. ...
Cloning humans, cloning literature: genetics and the imagination deficit [0.03%]
克隆人与克隆文学——基因时代的想象力缺失
J Van Dijck
J Van Dijck
After the birth of Dolly, media stories on cloning were replete with references to well-known science fiction plots. This essay criticizes the 'imagination deficit' of scientists and journalists, first by problematizing the uncritical adopt...
S Franklin
S Franklin
Alan Petersen,Alison Anderson,Stuart Allan
Alan Petersen
News media coverage of biotechnology issues offers a rich source of fictional portrayals, with stories drawing strongly on popular imagery and metaphors in descriptions of the powers and dangers of biotechnology. This article examines how s...
A sequence of 'factishes': the media-metaphorical knowledge dynamics structuring the German press coverage of the human genome [0.03%]
一连串的“实事子”：德语媒体关于人类基因组报道的知识动力学结构分析
Martin Doring
Martin Doring
This article deals with the cultural framing of the near sequencing of the human genome and its impact on the media coverage in Germany. It investigates in particular the way in which the weekly journal Die Zeit and the daily newspaper Fran...
Untying the Gordian knot of creation: metaphors for the Human Genome Project in Greek newspapers [0.03%]
解开创造的 gordian 结扣——希腊报纸中的人类基因组计划隐喻形象
Eleni Gogorosi
Eleni Gogorosi
This article studies the metaphorical expressions used by newspapers to present the near completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) to the Greek public in the year 2000. The analysis, based on cognitive metaphor theory, deals with the mos...