Narrating the First “Three-Parent Baby”

The Initial Press Reactions From the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12431268
AutoresSandra P González-Santo (0000-0002-4383-8634, Independent Researcher, Mexico City, Mexico, autor correspondente), N Stephens (0000-0003-3871-0887, Brunel University London, London, UK), Rebecca Dimond (0000-0003-1974-7289, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
Ano2018
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas419-441
Data de publicação2018-05-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1075-5470 • E-ISSN: 1552-8545
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1075547018772312
OpenAlexW2800187409
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas38

In 2016, the New Scientist announced the birth and good health of the world’s first baby conceived using spindle nuclear transfer (SNT). The story was immediately circulated worldwide. In this article, we analyze 39 articles published within the first 48 hours of the announcement, in the Mexican, British, and U.S. press. These articles constitute the initial press reactions to the announcement, and as such, they offer a narrative ground on which SNT could thereafter be discussed. We argue that as a media event, the articles performed the task of rendering SNT, a “cultural novelty,” as culturally and technologically feasible

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