Synthetic Biology: Public Perceptions of an Emergent Field
Synthetic Biology: Public Perceptions of an Emergent Field
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10.1007/978-3-319-25145-5_6
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2016-01-01
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Hagen, Kristin
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Pardo Avellaneda, Rafael;Hagen, Kristin
我们分析了合成生物学在“公众对科学的看法”框架内为社会科学提出的一些问题。公众观念在政策制定中不断变化的作用与科学的体制和文化背景的变化有关。我们仔细研究了公众对合成生物学的看法的背景下，什么是已知的公众对生物技术更普遍的经验证据。许多媒介影响着公众对生物技术的态度，特别是风险观念、目标与手段之间的权衡、伦理观点以及对科学和管理机构的信任。态度也与框架、符号和世界观有关。影响生命科学分支的核心世界观之一是当前对自然的看法：许多人意识到密集使用科学和技术的经济增长的问题方面，因此对进一步挑战“自然”过程和对象边界的科学进步敏感。合成生物学在许多领域与公众对“自然性”的偏好存在潜在冲突，尽管由于合成生物学在媒体和公众中的知名度较低，目前处于休眠状态。
We analyze some of the issues that synthetic biology raises for the social sciences within the "public perceptions of science" framework. The changing roles of public perceptions in policy making are described in relation with changes in the institutional and cultural contexts of science. We take a closer look at the available empirical evidence about public views on synthetic biology against the background of what is known about public perceptions of biotechnology more generally. Many vectors influence public attitudes to biotechnology, notably risk perceptions, tradeoffs between goals and means, ethical views, and trust in science and regulatory institutions. Attitudes are also associated with frames, symbols and worldviews. One of the central worldviews that affects subsets of the life sciences is the current vision of nature: many people are aware of problematic aspects of economic growth that makes intensive use of science and technology, and there is therefore sensitivity to scientific progress that further challenges the boundaries of "natural" processes and objects. Synthetic biology has components in potential conflict with the public's preference for "naturalness" in many areas, although this is at present dormant due to the low salience of synthetic biology in the media and public.