The Public Understanding of Science or The Scientific Understanding of The Public? A Review of The Social Context of The ‘New Genetics’  

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Macintyre, Sally

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 4 no. 3 (Jul. 1995), page 223-232.
Fulltext: 223PUS43.pdf (624.35KB)

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The ‘new genetics’ have great potential for improving human health. In order for this potential to be realized, attempts to improve the public understanding of so’ence should be complemental by attempts to improve our scientific understanding of the public. It is important to investigate existing popular understandings and practices. in relation to the role of heredity in human disease, chance and calculation of cost benefit ratios in situations of uncertainty, the management of the role of being ‘at risk‘ for particular diseass, and the ways in which individual and collective interests are balanced in a variety of health and welfare fields. Above all, we need to study what individuals, families and social institutions actually know, feel and do in relation to the ‘new genetics’, rather than basing policy on assumptions about what they might know, feel or do.

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