Communicating biological sciences : ethical and metaphorical dimensions / edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Richard Elliott, Brendon Larson.

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.

xiv, 250 pages ; 24 cm

1. Communicating Biological Sciences: An Introduction / Brigitte Nerlich, Richard Elliott and Brendon Larson -- 2. How Journalism Can Hide the Truth about Science / Elmien Wolvaardt -- 3. Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science / Sheila Jasanoff -- 4. Ethics of Framing Science / Matthew C. Nisbet -- 5. Bioethical Decisions and the Public Sphere: A Cross-Cultural Perspective / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter -- 6. Journalism and Society / Toby Murcott -- 7. Science Communication and Ethics - Trying to Get it Right: The Science Media Centre - A Case Study / Fiona Fox -- 8. Genes, Genomes and What to Make of Them / Jon Turney -- 9. Workbench View of Science Communication and Metaphor / Tim Radford -- 10. Metaphor Contests and Contested Metaphors: From Webs Spinning Spiders to Barcodes on DNA / Stephen Strauss -- 11. Should Scientists Advocate? The Case of Promotional Metaphors in Environmental Science / Brendon Larson -- 12. Metaphors as Time Capsules: Their Uses in the Biosciences and the Media / Iina Hellsten -- 13. Breakthroughs and Disasters: The (Ethical) Use of Future-Oriented Metaphors in Science Communication / Brigitte Nerlich -- 14. Craig Venter and the Re-programming of Life: How Metaphors Shape and Perform Ethical Discourses in the Media Presentation of Synthetic Biology / Andrew Balmer and Camille Herreman -- 15. Blame Francis Bacon: The Metaphor of Progress and the Progress of Metaphor in Science / Megan Allyse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.