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Opportunity, obligation, risk – The representation of preimplantational genetic tests in the Hungarian online news media

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Title Opportunity, obligation, risk – The representation of preimplantational genetic tests in the Hungarian online news media
 
Creator Kádár, Eszter
 
Subject health sociology, science communication, science and technology studies
selective reproductive technologies, discourse analysis, online media
 
Description AbstractPreimplantational genetic technologies (PG technologies) used in the processes of reproduction under laboratory conditions are considered to be one of the most controversial fields of gene technology. These tests are performed on embryos and result in the selection of the most capable embryo, while destroying the rest. Several moral questions arise regarding the ethical application of these procedures. This study investigated the representation of this topic in the Hungarian online media, applying (qualitative) Foucauldian discourse analysis. The results suggest that the narratives related to the topic can be organized according to their objects around three discourses: discourses surrounding parents, discourses surrounding the embryo, discourses surrounding the application of PG technologies. It was also revealed that narratives of risk, responsibility and freedom of autonomous decision play important role in constructing the representations of PG technologies in the Hungarian online news media.
 
Publisher Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
 
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Date 2017-06-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
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Identifier http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/157
10.14267/cjssp.2017.01.03
 
Source Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 8, No 1 (2017)
2062-087X
2061-5558
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/157/pdf
 
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