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The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (Conversations in Medicine and Society)
Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee
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| #1990652 in Books | 2004-07-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.13 x.70 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 312 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A well-written, broad review of the culture of genetics|By Richard Stowell|Nelkin and Lindee explore the way DNA has seeped into so many crevices in the popular culture, and how the cultural reflection of DNA science affects our expectations of the science. It is very much a book about public presentations and interpretations of science.
It is, when it comes down to|From Publishers Weekly|Nelkin and Lindee, sociologists and historians of science at New York Univ. and at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, respectively, have assembled a compendium of "folklore" documenting images of the "gene" in contemporary American popular culture
"The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession." --In These Times
"Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further study." --Nature
The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical...
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