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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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posted on 2023-05-17, 04:58 authored by Brandenburg, K
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.

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Publication title

New Genetics and Society

Volume

30

Pagination

115-131

ISSN

1463-6778

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Rankine Rd, Basingstoke, England, Hants, Rg24 8Pr

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Copyright 2011 Taylor & Francis.

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Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in human society

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