Telling Stories: Metaphors of the Human Genome Project
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 10 (4), 104-129
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01001.x
Abstract
Scientists of the Human Genome Project tend to rely on three metaphors to describe their work, each of which implicitly tells much the same story. Whether they claim to interpret the ultimate “book,” to fix a flawed “machine,” or to map a mysterious “wilderness,” they invariably cast the researcher as one who dominates and exploits the Other. This essay, which explores the ways such a story conflicts with feminist values, proposes an alternative.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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