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| Title |
Bioethics in popular science: evaluating the media impact of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on the biobank debate
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-14-10 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matthew C Nisbet, Declan Fahy |
| Abstract |
The global expansion of biobanks has led to a range of bioethical concerns related to consent, privacy, control, ownership, and disclosure. As an opportunity to engage broader audiences on these concerns, bioethicists have welcomed the commercial success of Rebecca Skloot's 2010 bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. To assess the impact of the book on discussion within the media and popular culture more generally, we systematically analyzed the ethics-related themes emphasized in reviews and articles about the book, and in interviews and profiles of Skloot. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 30% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 25% |
| Canada | 2 | 10% |
| South Africa | 1 | 5% |
| Greece | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 5 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 7 | 35% |
| Members of the public | 7 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 134 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 27 | 20% |
| Researcher | 19 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 13% |
| Other | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 27 | 20% |
| Unknown | 20 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 6% |
| Psychology | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 23% |
| Unknown | 26 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 October 2018.
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