Beyond the genome: Reconstituting the new genetics

Glasner, Peter

doi:10.1080/14636770216009

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“…The HGP continued the privileging of genetic explanations (Conrad, 1997). The media coverage reflected this positive framing and hype (Nerlich et al, 2002;Smart, 2003;Glasner, 2002). However, the coverage was not all positive or uncritical.…”

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Orchestrating a science ‘event’: the case of the Human Genome Project

Henderson

Kitzinger

2007

New Genetics and Society

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June 2000 saw the triumphal announcement of the completion of the human genome 'working draft'. This attracted extensive, peak and vivid coverage. While several studies have explored media coverage of the announcement, there has been little discussion of the production process: the overall aims, values and structures which underpinned this staged event. This article redresses this gap and draws on ten interviews with UK journalists and their sources to show how reporting was influenced by a number of factors, including news values, organisational identity, the history of reporting and editorial interest. This paper thus gives valuable insights into how science stories are 'made' and presented in terms of the dynamics of coverage. It reveals the ways in which political and economic factors may drive a science story and provides crucial insights into the key relationships which influence and shape media reporting of scientific research.

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Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning

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“…Indeed, there is evidence that the metaphors scientists are working with have shifted in the last few years (Nerlich & Hellsten, 2004). On the other hand, the HGP signalled a paradigm shift in biotechnology resulting from the conceptual and organizational changes that occurred following its completion (Glasner, 2002).…”

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Orchestrating a science ‘event’: the case of the Human Genome Project

Henderson

Kitzinger

2007

New Genetics and Society

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“…The HGP became a boundary objectsomething that serves as an interface between communities of practice (Star and Griesemer, 1989)allowing the technoscientific work of mapping and sequencing to proceed by enrolling those from different social worlds, with their differing views about its scientific merit, to agree on a common goal. It led to genetics moving out of the laboratory and becoming a big science enterprise (Glasner, 2002;Martin, 2001), while still leaving its development and applications in a state of flux. The publication of the first maps of the human genome constituted the preliminary attempts to stabilize this technological ensemble of social and techno-scientific elements (Bijker and Law, 1992).…”

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Genetics and Society

Glasner

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Peter Glasner (2002) has commented on this picture, seeing it as an example of a discursive twist by proponents of the HGP. Glasner notes that in order for the HGP to become a "foundation" rather than the "Holy Grail" of biological science, the results of the HGP have had to be transformed into a "black box," accomplished "through the simple device of admitting that molecular biologists knew all along that the HGP would not provide access to the 'Holy Grail'" (Glasner, 2002: 269).…”

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Foundations and profiles: splicing metaphors in genetic databases and biobanks

Ratto

2006

Public Underst Sci

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In this paper we explore new developments in genomics, in particular the move from data sequencing efforts like the Human Genome Project (HGP), to newer forms of data-driven genomic work that focus explicitly on the complicated relationship between genes and environment. We compare the use of a key term within the HGP, the metaphor of "foundation," to the use of a different term, the metaphor of "profile," within the GenomEUtwin consortium, an exemplar of "post-genomic" projects. By doing so, we attempt to re-think the role of language and metaphor in scientific projects and explore new developments in post-genomic research. These developments include: first, the movement towards an explicit and programmatic acknowledgement of the complexity of gene and trait relationships, second, the use of bio-informatics techniques as exploratory tools of discovery rather than as part of a more straightforward "decoding" effort, third, the development of network infrastructures that link up and provide access to a vast array of different databases, and fourth, the alignment between various disciplines and interests within biology, clinical work, and public health initiatives. We use the metaphor of "splicing" to emphasize the heterogeneous work of scientists engaged in "weaving together" the diverse set of ideas, interests, and players necessary for the success of large-scale scientific projects.

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Beyond the genome: Reconstituting the new genetics

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Orchestrating a science ‘event’: the case of the Human Genome Project

Orchestrating a science ‘event’: the case of the Human Genome Project

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Foundations and profiles: splicing metaphors in genetic databases and biobanks

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