The Harvard case of Xu Xiping: exploitation of the people, scientific advance, or genetic theft? [0.03%]
哈佛徐晓平案：利用人民、科学进步还是基因窃盗？
Margaret Sleeboom
Margaret Sleeboom
A unique history and make-up of a population may make it an attractive research target for population geneticists and pharmaco-genomic investors. The promise of pharmaceutical profits and advances in medical knowledge attracted Harvard rese...
Attitudes to biotechnology: estimating the opinions of a better-informed public [0.03%]
生物技术的态度：估计更好 informed 公众的意见
Patrick Sturgis,Helen Cooper,Chris Fife-Schaw
Patrick Sturgis
Public familiarity with basic scientific concepts and principles has been proposed as essential for effective democratic decision-making (Miller, 1998). Empirical research, however, finds that public 'scientific literacy' is generally low, ...
Baoqui Su,Darryl R J Macer
Baoqui Su
China has had a one-child family policy since 1979 and a National Family Planning Law since 2002. This paper presents analysis of comments from members of the general public and experts in China on the question of reproductive autonomy. The...
Language and values in the human cloning debate: a web-based survey of scientists and Christian fundamentalist pastors [0.03%]
关于克隆的人文价值和语言辩论：对科学家和基督教原教旨主义牧师的网络调查研究
Lisa H Weasel,Eric Jensen
Lisa H Weasel
Over the last seven years, a major debate has arisen over whether human cloning should remain legal in the United States. Given that this may be the 'first real global and simultaneous news story on biotechnology' (Einsiedel et al., 2002, p...
Comparative Study
New genetics and society. 2005 Apr;24(1):1-14. DOI:10.1080/14636770500037552 2005
Paula Saukko
Paula Saukko
This essay explores how testing for common and complex or genomic, as opposed to genetic, susceptibility to deep vein thrombosis both challenges and consolidates old social discourses on genes, gender and pregnancy. The nexus between geneti...
Jane Calvert
Jane Calvert
This paper analyses the ways in which genomic knowledge is portrayed as useful knowledge in gene patenting in order to fulfil the 'utility'/'industrial applicability' requirement for patentability. It gives examples of utility claims in gen...
Christine Hauskeller
Christine Hauskeller
This paper aims to show that references to genes and genomes are counterproductive in legal and political understandings of what it is to be human and a unique individual. To support this claim, I will give a brief overview of the many inco...
Brigitte Nerlich,Iina Hellsten
Brigitte Nerlich
This article examines the shifts and changes in the metaphors used to describe the human genome and the human genome project (HGP) between 2000 and 2003, with the year 2001 as a trigger for genomic and metaphorical reflection. We want to an...
Comparative Study
New genetics and society. 2004 Dec;23(3):255-68. DOI:10.1080/1463677042000305039 2004
Conflicting perceptions of the fetus: person, patient, 'nobody', commodity? [0.03%]
胎儿的矛盾认识：人、病人、“非人”和商品？
C Williams,P Alderson,B Farsides
C Williams
Different constructions of the fetus lie at the centre of reproductive, abortion and disability politics. Recent developments mean that, within the same hospital, a fetus may be perceived in contrasting and potentially conflicting ways. It ...
"They want to know where they came from": population genetics, identity, and family genealogy [0.03%]
"他们想知道自己来自哪里"：人口遗传学、身份和家庭谱系学
Richard Tutton
Richard Tutton
This paper discusses the changing relationship between population genetics, family genealogy and identity. It reports on empirical research with participants in a genetic study who anticipated that personal feedback on the analysis of their...