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02614aam a2200349 i 4500 001 540A7760F08A11EDB88C213231ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230512010029 008 210317s2022 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021007095 020 $a 1108812821 020 $a 9781108812825 020 $a 1108835473 020 $a 9781108835473 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QH447 $b .K3625 2022 082 00 $a 572.8/6 $2 23 100 1 $a Kampourakis, Kostas, $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding genes / $c Kostas Kampourakis, University of Geneva. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xxi, 217 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm. 490 0 $a Understanding life 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index. 520 $a "This chapter is about the public image of genes. But what exactly do we mean by "public"? Here I use this word as a noun or an adjective vaguely, in order to refer to all ordinary people who are not experts in genetics. I thus contrast them with scientists who are experts in genetics, that is, who have mastered genetics-related knowledge and skills, who practice these as their main occupation, and who have valid genetics-related credentials, confirmed experience, and affirmation by their peers. I must note that both "experts" and "the public" are complex categories that depend on the context and that change over time. There is no single group of non-experts that we can define as "the" public, as people around the world differ in their perception of science, depending on their cultural contexts. We had therefore better refer to "publics". The differences among experts nowadays might be less significant than those among non-experts, given today's global scientific communities, but they do exist. Finally, both the categories of experts and publics have changed across time, depending on the one hand on the level of experts' knowledge and understanding of the natural world, and on the other hand on publics' attitudes toward that knowledge and understanding"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Genes $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Genomics $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Genetics $v Popular works. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kampourakis, Kostas. $t Understanding genes $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022 $z 9781108884150 $w (DLC) 2021007096 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010544.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=540A7760F08A11EDB88C213231ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search