“Designer Babies” and “Playing God”: Metaphor, Genome Editing, and Bioethics in Popular Science Texts by Elisa Mattiello

“…It explores two sub-corpora of web articles drawn from Nature.com and TheGuardian.com in order to identify the metaphorical associations that authors of popularisation discourse trigger in the audience’s mind and the ethical issues that these associations may raise. …”
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A qualitative investigation of perceptions towards antibiotics by members of the public after choosing to pledge as an Antibiotic Guardian by Lorna Flintham, Diane Ashiru‐Oredope, Jordan Charlesworth, Roger Harrison, Elizabeth Dalgarno

“…Patient or Public Contribution This study was based on interviews with adult members of the public who had pledged to be AGs via the website www.AntibioticGuardian.com. Interviews were based on the public's perceptions of the AG campaign, antibiotic use and ABR.…”
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