The DNA Mystique: The Gene As a Cultural Icon - Softcover
Nelkin and Lindee analyze the striking presence of genetic images in popular culture, where DNA has been touted as an explanation for personality, a source of crime, and the cause of individual success or failure.
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Dorothy Nelkin, University Professor at NYU, is the author of more than twenty books. M. Susan Lindee is an Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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. They utilize this material to examine diverse intersections between current social issues and ideas about genetic determinism. The main chapters are informative surveys of such topics as eugenics, gender, sexuality, familial relations and social behaviors (criminal genes). The authors show how malleable arguments concerning genetic determinism can be and the ways popular images may channel public perception and influence courses of research. The nontechnical text avoids scientific errors. Although overviews in the initial and final pages are less coherent and although they are marred by the occasional opaque buzzword (essentialism, secular soul, supergene), the body of this work offers valuable insights. Illustrations.
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- PublisherW. H. Freeman
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0716730499
- ISBN 13 9780716730491
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