Attitude Change in Response to Advances in Genetic Technology

对基因技术进步的态度转变

• 批准号: 9601367
• 负责人: Eleanor Singer
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Attitude; Change; Response; Advances; Genetic

In 1988, the Ethics and Values Studies Program funded a baseline study of public attitudes and values towards prenatal testing and genetic testing among adults. The long-range interest of the study was in change over time, but the initial support provided for undertaking only one baseline measurement and two ancillary studies: an analysis of media coverage and a survey of the positions taken by various organizations with interests in the new technologies. In the six years since this first measurement, further rapid advances in genetic technology have occurred. Media stories about discoveries of the locations of new genes and of possibilities for new genetic tests are proliferating. Given these rapid developments, and the choices they pose for individuals and society, the time seems ripe for replicating some of the attitudinal measures first obtained in 1990. Funds from other sources have made it possible to replicate the questions on the General Social Survey, fielded in Spring 1996. This award provides funds for the analysis of trends in responses to these questions. Several articles and plans for further research should result from this award.

1988年，伦理和价值观研究方案资助了一项关于公众对成人产前检测和基因检测的态度和价值观的基线研究。 这项研究的长期目的是随着时间的推移而改变，但最初只为进行一项基线测量和两项辅助研究提供了支助：分析媒体报道和调查对新技术感兴趣的各组织所持的立场。 在第一次测量后的六年里，遗传技术取得了进一步的迅速进展。 关于发现新基因的位置和新基因测试的可能性的媒体报道正在激增。 鉴于这些迅速的发展，以及它们给个人和社会带来的选择，复制1990年首次采取的某些态度措施的时机似乎已经成熟。 其他来源提供的资金使得有可能重复1996年春季进行的一般社会调查的问题。 该奖项为分析这些问题的趋势提供资金。 几篇文章和进一步研究的计划应该从这个奖项产生。