Envisioning Complex Futures: Collective Narratives and Reasoning in Deliberations over Gene Editing in the Wild
Envisioning Complex Futures: Collective Narratives and Reasoning in Deliberations over Gene Editing in the Wild
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展望复杂的未来：野外基因编辑审议中的集体叙事和推理
DOI：
10.1002/hast.1325
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Schlesinger, Mark
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作者：
Wills, Ben Curran;Gusmano, Michael K.;Schlesinger, Mark
在野外开发基因编辑技术有可能产生巨大的好处，但也引起了重要的关注。使用某种形式的公共审议来告知关于使用这些技术的决定是有吸引力的，但是关于这些技术的公共审议往往会依赖于各种形式的经验主义，以解释对这些技术的有限的个人经验。审议很可能涉及叙事推理或嵌入故事中的推理。这些是用来帮助人们讨论风险，过程和恐惧，否则很难传达。在这篇文章中，我们确定了三种形式的集体叙事，特别是有关修改基因在野外的辩论。我们的目的不是要对任何特定的叙述给予特权，而是要鼓励参与审议的人使这些叙述透明化。这样做可以帮助防止一些叙事--这里称为“精心制作的叙事”--可能被强大的精英和集中的经济利益集团操纵，以达到他们自己的战略目的。
The development of technologies for gene editing in the wild has the potential to generate tremendous benefit, but also raises important concerns. Using some form of public deliberation to inform decisions about the use of these technologies is appealing, but public deliberation about them will tend to fall back on various forms of heuristics to account for limited personal experience with these technologies. Deliberations are likely to involve narrative reasoning—or reasoning embedded within stories. These are used to help people discuss risks, processes, and fears that are otherwise difficult to convey. In this article, we identify three forms of collective narrative that are particularly relevant to debates about modifying genes in the wild. Our purpose is not to privilege any particular narrative, but to encourage people involved in deliberations to make these narratives transparent. Doing so can help guard against the way some narratives—referred to here as “crafted narratives”—may be manipulated by powerful elites and concentrated economic interests for their own strategic ends.