Academic papers.
A few journal articles and other items for those seriously interested in old stuff on similar themes to the last page.
The Abstract Sublime: Life as information waiting to be rewritten.
Science as Culture, 13 (2), 2004.
My take on Adrian Woolfson's Life Without Genes, and on the aesthetics of pop science
Accounting for Explanation in Popular Science Text – A scheme and a case study. Public Understanding of Science, Vol 13, no 4, 331-346, 2004.
Mainly about Brian Greene's Elegant Universe and whetheer anyone can understand string theory
Public Understanding of Genetics: The Deficit Model,
Article for Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, (Macmillan, 2003)
Telling the Facts of Life: Cosmology and the Epic of Evolution.
Science as Culture, 10 (2) 2001, pp225-247
Can popular science become the new religion? Er, no.
Predictive medicine, genetics and schizophrenia (with Dr J. Turner), New Genetics and Society, 19, no 1, (2000), 5-23.
Also in Reconfiguring Nature: Issues and Debates in the New Genetics, Ashgate, 2003.
Results of a Wellcome-funded project on how we might use information about genes for common diseases. Jill Turner (no relation) did all the work.
The genetic body (With Brian Balmer). Chapter in Cooter, R., and Pickstone, J., History of Medicine in the Twentieth Century, Harwood, 2000.
Open University Study Guides, for S802 Master’s Course Module, Science and the Public.
Part A – The ‘Gay Gene’ in Science and the Media pp10. 1998
Block 2 – Risk perception pp10. 1998
Block 3 – History of public understanding of science pp10 1998
To know science is to love it? Observations from public understanding of science research.
Public Understanding of Science Practice series. Pp 29. COPUS/Royal Society. September 1996.
Public Understanding of Science
The Lancet – 347, 20 April 1996, pp 1087-1091