Public visions of genetics

cf. R. Love , “Knowing your genes,” Public Understanding of Science 5 (1996): 21-28.

S. Cunningham-Burley and A. Kerr , review of D. Nelkin and S. Lindee, The DNA Mystique in Public Understanding of Science 5, no. 3 (1996): 287-289.

M. Ideland , “Understanding Gene Technology through Narratives,” in Gene Technology and the Public: An Interdisciplinary Perspective ed. S. Lundin and M. Ideland (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1997), 86-98.

P. Conrad and D. Weinberg , “Has the Gene for Alcoholism Been Discovered Three Times Since 1980? A News Media Analysis,” Perspectives on Social Problems 8 (1996): 3-25. This report covers part of a larger study in progress of reporting of behavioural genetics in the last 30 years.

C. Condit , “Contributions of the Rhetorical Perspective to the Social Placement of Medical Genetics,” Communication Studies 46 (1995): 118-129.

N. K. Hayles , “Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation,” in Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture, ed. G. Levine (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 27-43.

S. Weart , Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988), xii.

See J. Turney , Frankenstein's Footsteps: Genetics, Science and Popular Culture (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998), ch. 7. (I should emphasize that, despite the publisher's subtitle, this book does not confine itself to genetics.)

Though it would also make it more complex. Edward Wilson, who as a sociobiologist van Dijck sees as a promoter of the new gene, describes his Harvard colleague James Watson as “the most unpleasant human being I had ever met”; Watson treated Wilson, the traditional natural historian, with the contempt due to a mere stamp-collector. See E. O. Wilson , Naturalist (London: Allen Lane, 1995), 219.

J. Van Dijck , Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies (London: Macmillan, 1995).

H. G. Wells , G. P. Wells , and J. Huxley , The Science of Life: A Summary of Contemporary Knowledge about Life and its Possibilities (London: Amalgamated Press, 1930), 2: 386.

See the novel the series was based on: G. Cross , The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (London: Penguin, 1996).