Public Expectations of Gene Therapy
Scientific Futures and Their Performative Effects on Scientific Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5173271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Horst (0000-0002-9641-5213, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150-171 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243906296852 |
| OpenAlex | W2085125873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 24 |
The article combines a criticism of public understanding of science (PUS) with the sociology of expectations to examine how particular expectations toward scientific progress have performative effects for the construction of publics as citizens of science. By analyzing a particular controversy about gene therapy in Denmark, the article demonstrates how different sets of expectations can be used to discriminate among three different assemblages: the assemblage of consumption, the assemblage of comportment, and the assemblage of heroic action. Each of these assemblages makes medical science, scientific citizenship, politics, patients, doctors, and expectations toward the future emerge in particular ways. By their radically different expectations toward science and their different constructions of what it means to be a scientific citizen, the assemblages construct the objectives of the governance of science in three very different ways
Biology · Citizenship · Corporate governance · Criticism · Epistemology · Management · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Public awareness of science · Science communication · Science education · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,9 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |