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Risk, parental autonomy and the epistemic divide: preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Australian print news media, 1990-2007
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Brandenburg, K, Risk, parental autonomy and the epistemic divide: preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Australian print news media, 1990-2007, New Genetics and Society, 30, (1) pp. 115-131. ISSN 1463-6778 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/14636778.2011.556710
Abstract
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive/genetic technology which has become the subject of public and scholarly debate because it involves the evaluation and consequent selection (and implantation) or destruction of human embryos. This research investigates the way PGD is constituted in the Australian print news media. Foucauldian discourse analysis reveals that proponents draw on their direct knowledge and experience of PGD to support their claims. There is an epistemic divide between consumers and others claiming direct knowledge, and critics and others drawing on indirect or abstract understandings of PGD. This divide characterizes the discourses present in the data and is directly linked to changes in these over the period under analysis.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | preimplantation genetic diagnosis |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Sociology |
| Research Field: | Sociology and social studies of science and technology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
| UTAS Author: | Brandenburg, K (Ms Kellie Brandenburg) |
| ID Code: | 67712 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 2 |
| Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
| Deposited On: | 2011-03-07 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-30 |
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