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Popular culture and genetics; friend, foe or something more complex?

While many people enjoy popular culture, these transactional experiences may not translate into formal or academic learning about a subject. In education and science communication settings popular culture is often presented as a source of inaccurate information about science. Different publics are o...

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Autores principales: Roberts, Jonathan, Archer, Louise, DeWitt, Jennifer, Middleton, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30590173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2018.12.005
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description While many people enjoy popular culture, these transactional experiences may not translate into formal or academic learning about a subject. In education and science communication settings popular culture is often presented as a source of inaccurate information about science. Different publics are often positioned as, at best, undiscriminating consumers and at worst victims of distorted scientific information. We explore how people use their own knowledge and interests to engage with genetics. Here, data from family interviews are used to illustrate how participants draw on popular culture as a resource to engage with and articulate their beliefs about genetics. Using qualitative data from family interviews we describe two perspectives: first, popular culture represents a source of narratives and metaphors used for rhetorical purposes. Second participants used fictional narratives in more depth - as sense-making devices - allowing people to explore the moral and ethical implications of genetics. We argue that by utilising patients’ interests – such as popular culture – we can potentially enrich communication in a genetic counselling context.
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spelling pubmed-66264852019-07-23 Popular culture and genetics; friend, foe or something more complex? Roberts, Jonathan Archer, Louise DeWitt, Jennifer Middleton, Anna Eur J Med Genet Article While many people enjoy popular culture, these transactional experiences may not translate into formal or academic learning about a subject. In education and science communication settings popular culture is often presented as a source of inaccurate information about science. Different publics are often positioned as, at best, undiscriminating consumers and at worst victims of distorted scientific information. We explore how people use their own knowledge and interests to engage with genetics. Here, data from family interviews are used to illustrate how participants draw on popular culture as a resource to engage with and articulate their beliefs about genetics. Using qualitative data from family interviews we describe two perspectives: first, popular culture represents a source of narratives and metaphors used for rhetorical purposes. Second participants used fictional narratives in more depth - as sense-making devices - allowing people to explore the moral and ethical implications of genetics. We argue that by utilising patients’ interests – such as popular culture – we can potentially enrich communication in a genetic counselling context. Elsevier 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6626485/ /pubmed/30590173 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2018.12.005 Text en © The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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