ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2015
"Editing" Genes: A Case Study About How Language Matters in Bioethics.
Article in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Policy and Governance Perspectives for Regulation of Genome Edited Crops in the United States.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
- European Court of Justice ruling regarding new genetic engineering methods scientifically justified: a commentary on the biased reporting about the recent ruling.Environmental sciences Europe · 2018Article
- Synthetic biology, metaphors and responsibility.Life sciences, society and policy · 2017Article
- A CRISPR New World: Attitudes in the Public toward Innovations in Human Genetic Modification.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
- Healing Without Waging War: Beyond Military Metaphors in Medicine and HIV Cure Research.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2016Review
- How Metaphors About the Genome Constrain CRISPR Metaphors: Separating the "Text" From Its "Editor".The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2015Article
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Abstract
Metaphors used to describe new technologies mediate public understanding of the innovations. Analyzing the linguistic, rhetorical, and affective aspects of these metaphors opens the range of issues available for bioethical scrutiny and increases public accountability. This article shows how such a multidisciplinary approach can be useful by looking at a set of texts about one issue, the use of a newly developed technique for genetic modification, CRISPRcas9.
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