Animals in their Nature
A Case Study on Public Attitudes to Animals, Genetic Modification and ‘Nature’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phil Macnaghten (0000-0002-6611-4583, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-551 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038504043217 |
| OpenAlex | W2111292203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article seeks to engage with contemporary debates on the social and ethical dimensions of genetically modified (GM) animals. Dominant policy ethical approaches and frameworks are criticized for failing radically to accommodate some of the most important dimensions of concern. Drawing on primary empirical data emphasizing existing embodied relationships to animals, the article analyses how people express ethical concern over GM animals, including their sense of the continuities and discontinuities between GM animals and those determined by conventional selective breeding practices. The findings suggest that GM animals are likely to become an issue of public controversy, especially in the animal testing domain, due to the ways in which they symbolize and give voice to underlying tensions between 'moral'and 'instrumental'approaches to animals.The article concludes that people reject GM animals as 'going against nature', and that such concerns reflect wider unease about science, about technological modernity, and about hubris
Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Hubris · Modernity · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy
The Space Between
Attitudes towards the use of genetically modified animals in research
Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing
Public perceptions of animal experimentation across Europe
Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments, and "Progress"
The complexity of the gene and the precision of CRISPR
Gene editing of livestock
Narrative as a resource for inclusive governance
Transfiguring the Anthropocene
Narrative, Nanotechnology and the Accomplishment of Public Responses
The Opposite of Human Enhancement
All things weird and scary’
Aquaculture
Moral “Lock-In” in Responsible Innovation
Using Breeding Technologies to Improve Farm Animal Welfare
Genetically Modifying Livestock for Improved Welfare
Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment
Is CRISPR an Ethical Game Changer
The Pedigree Dog Breeding Debate in Ethics and Practice
A Public Survey on Handling Male Chicks in the Dutch Egg Sector
Social Acceptance of Dairy Farming
Are Scientists Right and Non-Scientists Wrong? Reflections on Discussions of GM
Ethical Issues and Potential Stakeholder Priorities Associated with the Application of Genomic Technologies Applied to Animal Production Systems
Constructing the Biotech Nonhuman Animal
Conceptions of Equine Welfare in Finnish Horse Magazines
Attitudes on Animal Research Predict Acceptance of Genetic Modification Technologies by University Undergraduates
From Bio to Nano
Anticipatory Governance
Agricultural practices, ecosystem services and sustainability in High Nature Value farmland
Genetic techniques for livestock breeding
The lore of low methane livestock
Boosted bodies
Beasts and boundaries
Researching Technoscientific Concerns in the Making
Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation
Country Life
The Sacred and the Profane
Engaging nanotechnologies
Performing Expertise in Human-Animal Relationships
L'ambivalence des relations humain-animal
Understanding Relations between Science, Politics, and the Public
Towards an anticipatory public engagement methodology
Multi-species sociology of the body
Multispecies Scholarship and Encounters
Ethical Boundary-work in the Animal Research Laboratory
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |