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ETN :003 KRY
- 2007
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ”Jag hoppas att jag får ha hälsan”, är ett uttryck som idag känns passé. Hälsa är inte längre något man ”har”, eller ens ”får”. Idag är hälsa något man ”gör”. Det är individens ansvar att ”göra” sin hälsa genom att äta rätt, motionera väl, hålla sig uppdaterad om vetenskapliga rön och nya behandlingsmetoder och inte minst – tro på sig själv. Hälsa är – åtminstone i den offentliga diskursen – beroende av individen själv. Denne tycks ha möjlighet att påverka sitt liv, men bär också ansvar och kanske till och med skuld för om det går fel. ETN:KRY är en tidskrift som tar upp hälsa och sjukdom utifrån ett etnologiskt perspektiv.
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ETN:KRY
- 2007
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- ”Jag hoppas att jag får ha hälsan”, är ett uttryck som idag känns passé. Hälsa är inte längre något man ”har”, eller ens ”får”. Idag är hälsa något man ”gör”. Det är individens ansvar att ”göra” sin hälsa genom att äta rätt, motionera väl, hålla sig uppdaterad om vetenskapliga rön och nya behandlingsmetoder och inte minst – tro på sig själv. Hälsa är – åtminstone i den offentliga diskursen – beroende av individen själv. Denne tycks ha möjlighet att påverka sitt liv, men bär också ansvar och kanske till och med skuld för om det går fel. ETN:KRY är en tidskrift som tar upp hälsa och sjukdom utifrån ett etnologiskt perspektiv.
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ETN:POP
- 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Holmberg, Tora, 1967-, et al.
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Dilemman med transgena djur : forskningspraktik och etik
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under senare år har vi i Sverige sett en minskning av djurförsök. Denna trend gäller dock inte transgena djur, det vill säga djur som på olika sätt förändrats i arvsmassan, något som tvärtom ökar. verksamheten skapar en rad frågeställningar. Det handlar om moraliska och andra dilemman som är en del av all djurförsökshantering. Vi människor tar oss trots allt rätten att använda andra djur för att förbättra oss själva. Men verksamheten skapar också vissa specifika och ibland svårhanterliga frågeställningar som hänger ihop med att djuren är genmodifierade, som oförutsägbara eller för djuret svåra konsekvenser av modifieringen. Transgens djur - framför allt är det möss som används - utmanar också en rad etablerade kulturella gränser; mellan olika arter, mellan vetenskap och teknologi samt mellan organism och uppfinning. I denna publikation, ett resultat från projektet Dilemman med transgena djur, undersöks hur forskare, djurförsökstekniker och ledamöter i djurförsöksetiska nämnder, hanterar dessa dilemman.
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- Holmberg, Tora, et al.
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Secrets and lies : ''selective openness'' in the apparatus of animal experimentation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : Sage Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 3:21, s. 354-368
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers and other (human) actors within the apparatus of animal experimentation find themselves in a tight corner. They rely on public acceptance to promote their legitimacy and to receive funding. At the same time, those working with animal experimentation take risks by going public, fearing that the public will misunderstand their work and animal rights activists may threaten them. The dilemma that emerges between openness and secrecy is fairly prevalent in scientific culture as a whole, but the apparatus of animal experimentation presents specific patterns of technologies of secrets. The aim of the paper is to describe and analyse the meanings of secrets and openness in contemporary animal experimentation. We suggest that these secrets – or “selective openness” – can be viewed as grease in the apparatus of animal experimentation, as a unifying ingredient that permits maintenance of status quo in human/animal relations and preserves existing institutional public/science relations.
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- Holmberg, Tora, et al.
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Transgenic dilemmas : managing animals in laboratories and ethics committees
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ethics as well as practices of the new genetics depend on the global context, but techno-science also changes in the face of emerging everyday dilemmas according to local conditions. The new project presented in this paper project intends to ascertain how the management of transgenic animals shapes and are shaped by, wider socio-cultural and techno-scientific change. We investigate the everyday handling in production of and experimentation with transgenic animals concerning the emergence and management of ethical, social and ecological dilemmas. Transgenic animals challenge well established boundaries and can thus be expected to give rise to new quandaries and concerns; about culture and nature, human and animal, risk and safety, innovation and organism, science and technology, just to mention some. The project also intends to analyse the expression and management of the somewhat paradoxical situation, that industrial as well as university based research increasingly require transgenic animals, and that the same intensified research contribute to a situation where the handling of the hybrid become more and more complex and problematic, both on a societal, cultural and a scientific level. This is due to the challenges to established species boundaries and worldviews that these animals present. The research problems are analysed in two different areas: The everyday, practical interaction between humans and non-humans in laboratory settings and at the institutional level of animal experimentation ethics committees and their members. The objectives are thus: 1) to explore and understand the processes through which novel natures frame and are framed by public and scientific perceptions and worldviews, in the case of transgenic animals in Sweden, and 2) through this knowledge be able to contribute to well informed decision making on different institutional levels.
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- Holmberg, Tora, et al.
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Transgenic Silences : The Rhetoric of Comparisons and Transgenic Mice as ‘Ordinary Treasures’
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Ingår i: BioSocieties. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1745-8552 .- 1745-8560. ; 4:2-3, s. 165-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses how people who handle transgenic animals in practice – laboratory workers and members of animal ethics committees – talk about and handle dilemmas with transgenic animals. It is shown how dilemmas associated with transgenic animals become back-grounded through rhetorical comparisons with “something else”. Through these comparisons, transgenic animals are framed as normal, ordinary and thereby unproblematic, on the one hand, and as exclusive treasures imbedded in hopes and expectations of future medical treatments, on the other. This tension builds up to a discourse on transgenic mice as ordinary treasures. Towards the end of the paper we discuss how this discourse tends to exclude possibilities of discussing specific dilemmas of genetically modified animals. Instead the discourse is contributing to certain transgenic silences. This paper is based on the project Dilemmas with transgenic animals, in which notions of culture and nature, risk and safety, innovation and organism, science and technology, are investigated in the scientific production, use and ethical evaluation of transgenic animals. The project builds on case studies in two different contexts; laboratories and animal ethics committees. The methods used are interviews and ethnographic fieldwork.
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- Ideland, Malin
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Dagens Gennyheter : Hur massmedier berättar om genetik och genteknik
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the 1990’s gene technology got a break-through – both as a science and in people’s consciousness. Media reported frequently about scientific breakthroughs. Cloned animals, localized genes, hopes of new medicines and alarming reports on genetically modified food are a few examples on what Swedish mass media has reported on gene technology during the decade. The aim of the dissertation ”Dagens Gennyheter. Hur massmedier berättar om genetik och genteknik” (”Gene News of Today. How Mass Media Talks about Genetics and Gene Technology”) is to analyze how the reporting not only reflects facts, but also the contexts in which the texts are produced. The narratives convey messages of what is natural and unnatural, the relationship between nature and nurture, the risks of gene technology and the credibility of science. The first part of the dissertation focuses actors who have influence on the media narratives. Here I discuss, for example, what meaning ideals and routines for science journalism have for the texts, how the intentions to be a fast news reporter and an objective educationist sometimes collide. Also people outside the media world play an important part in the construction of media narratives. Here I illustrate the meaning of outsiders by analyzing the relationship between media and representantives for a handicap organization (The Swedish Association of Neurologically Disabled) and for genetic research. The outsiders’ strategies to enter the medial arena are studied, as well as how these two categories are described in mass media. The second part of the dissertation deals with which discourses about biology and culture, natural and unnatural, fact and fiction the media language is founded on. How does the journalists’ choice of metaphors reflect what is seen as natural, biological and scientific in our society. The importance of fiction is also studied in an analysis of how the movie ”Jurassic Park” is used as a metaphor in news reports – and how the borderline between fact and fiction is blurred. Metaphors are interesting to study because their messages guide the readers’ or listeners’ associations in a specific direction. The metaphors can be seen as both reflecting and affecting the culture. The media texts are analyzed as expressions of discourses. They are characterized by an intertextuality – how texts from different genres refer to each other – which also gives the narratives a certain meaning. The texts are also characterized by interdiscoursivity – an interplay between different norms and discourses. This interdiscoursivity leads to changing or confirmation of the discourses. By studying how discourses meet and interplay it is possible to avoid getting stranded in steraotypes pattern of thinking in either journalism or genetics. By analyzing interactions between practices, norms and texts, it is possible to look beyond scientific stereotypes and visualize new emerging patterns.
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