Information Metaphors and the Human Genome Project

Fogle, Thomas A.

doi:10.1353/pbm.1995.0060

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“…When leaders, health professionals, and journalists enlist metaphors to bring about lay understanding of public health issues, such efforts have been shown to inspire extreme (and often negative) perceptions, inferences, and behavioral outcomes. For instance, Condit and Condit (2001) demonstrated that overly deterministic metaphors for genetic function have facilitated the belief that preventative health behaviors are not worthwhile (see also Fogle, 1995). Similarly, Sontag (1988) argued that certain metaphors about potentially terminal diseases "kill" by framing available treatment as ineffective (p. 14).…”

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The Authoritative Metaphor and Social Change: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Direct Mailer, “Understanding AIDS”

Jensen

King

2013

Health Communication

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In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop published "Understanding AIDS," the nation's first and only direct mailing sent to every private home in the country. His appeals therein were driven by what we label authoritative metaphors. Communicated by and/or attributed to persons of authority, authoritative metaphors capitalize on the symbolic force of sanctioned power by appealing to the ethos of office. In "Understanding AIDS," we find that Koop drew from his positions as a surgeon and a general, respectively, to equate AIDS with an unprecedented plague and an unprecedented war. He created new authoritative metaphors out of the vestiges of familiar metaphors related to disease and public health and thereby portrayed AIDS as a recognizable but decisively unique dilemma requiring distinct preventative behaviors.

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Section: The Authoritative Metaphor and Healthmentioning

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The Authoritative Metaphor and Social Change: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Direct Mailer, “Understanding AIDS”

Jensen

King

2013

Health Communication

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“…Instead, they adopt what is termed an interactionist view, and state that rather than emphasising either genetic or non-genetic information, the interaction between the two should instead be focussed upon. 50 However as most researchers in behavioural genetics now also refer to themselves as interactionists, a more structured theory in disagreement with the significance of genetic information has emerged. Termed Developmental Systems theory, proponents of this view claim that the effects of genes and environment can never be separated, as they have an essential and continuous interdependence.…”

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The Nature and Significance of Behavioural Genetic Information

Newson

2004

Theor Med Bioeth

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In light of the human genome project, establishing the genetic aetiology of complex human diseases has become a research priority within Western medicine. However, in addition to the identification of disease genes, numerous research projects are also being undertaken to identify genes contributing to the development of human behavioural characteristics, such as cognitive ability and criminal tendency. The permissibility of this research is obviously controversial: will society benefit from this research, or will it adversely affect our conceptions of ourselves and each other?When assessing the permissibility of this research, it is important to consider the nature and deterministic significance of behavioural genetic information. Whilst to date there has been much discussion and debate about the properties of genetic information per se and genetic determinism, this has not been applied to behavioural genetic research and its ethical implications. Therefore, this paper elucidates how behavioural genetic information can be distinguished from different from other types of genetic and non-genetic information and also synthesises the determinative significance of genetic factors for the development of human behavioural traits. Undertaking this analysis enables the ethical issues raised by this research to be debated in an appropriate context and indicates that separate policy considerations are warranted.

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“…44 Fogle 1995, Van Dijk 1998, Condit 1999. Todos estos autores respasan las metáforas y significados públicos del genoma humano.…”

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Apuntes Epistemológicos a La E-Ciencia

Vallverdú¹

2008

Rev. filos.

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En los inicios del siglo XXI está desarrollándose una e-ciencia, una ciencia electrónica y altamente computarizada que exige un replanteamiento sobre la epistemología científica. A través del ejemplo de la Bioinformática y las Biotecnologías, el autor muestra algunas características de esta nueva e-ciencia e indica algunos de los problemas con los que deben enfrentarse los filósofos de la ciencia contemporáneos.

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Information Metaphors and the Human Genome Project

Cited by 24 publications

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The Authoritative Metaphor and Social Change: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Direct Mailer, “Understanding AIDS”

The Authoritative Metaphor and Social Change: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Direct Mailer, “Understanding AIDS”

The Nature and Significance of Behavioural Genetic Information

Apuntes Epistemológicos a La E-Ciencia

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