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Grant Abstract

Human Heredity in American Popular Culture

This study will explore the meaning of human genetics in popular culture, within the context of changing ideas about heredity and eugenics since the turn of the century. Drawing on the methods of…

Grant Abstract

Genetics in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

The grant will fund a working group of scholars in literature, film, and media studies to examine the representation of genetics in literary and popular culture. Throughout the twentieth century,…

Publication

Frankenstein's footsteps: Science, genetics and popular culture

Yale University Press
Turney, Jon
Digital citation created by the Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University, for the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics, a project funded by the United States National…

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The DNA mystique: The gene as a cultural icon

W.H. Freeman and Company
Nelkin, Dorothy, Lindee, M. Susan

Publication

The big bad wolf: Masculinity and genetics in popular culture

Literature and Medicine
Schell, Heather
Digital citation created by the Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University, for the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics, a project funded by the United States National…

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Eugenic fantasies: Racial ideology in the literature and popular culture of the 1920's

Routledge
Nies, Betsy L.
Digital citation created by the Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University, for the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics, a project funded by the United States National…

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Popular eugenics: National efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s

Ohio University Press
Currell, Susan, Cogdell, Christina
Digital citation created by the Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University, for the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics, a project funded by the United States National…

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The role of "genetics" in popular understandings of race in the United States

Public Underst Sci.
Condit, Celeste M., Parrott, Roxanne L., Harris, Tina M., Lynch, John, Dubriwny, Tasha

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Cloning in the media and popular culture. An analysis of German documentaries reveals beliefs and prejudices that are common elsewhere

EMBO Reports
Maio, Giovanni
Digital citation created by the Bioethics Research Library, Georgetown University, for the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics, a project funded by the United States National…

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Public culture and public understanding of genetics: A focus group study

Public Underst Sci
Bates, Benjamin R.