Blueprints and Recipes: Gendered Metaphors for Genetic Medicine |
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Authors: | Celeste M. Condit Deirdre M. Condit |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK (E-mail |
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Abstract: | In the face of documented difficulties in the public understanding of genetics, new metaphors have been suggested. The language of information coding and processing has become deeply entrenched in the public representation of genetics, and some critics have found fault in the blueprint metaphor, a variant of the dominant theme. They have offered the language of the recipe as a preferable metaphor. The metaphors of the blueprint and the recipe are compared in respect to their deterministic implications and other associations. The likelihood of the recipe metaphor framing cognition in more useful ways is called into question. |
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