History of Human Genetics by Heike I. Petermann Peter S. Harper & Susanne Doetz

Author:Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper & Susanne Doetz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

As Giarelli notes: “Cartoons have claims to truth, as do other forms of art that attempt to represent and reflect reality and supplement the news presentations with statements of ‘meaning’. Cartoons develop a subtle semiotic structure to generate a particular meaning that is humorous. The by-product is to gain support for an argument or point of view. […] [Cartoons] reflect cultural attitudes and values, and record and perpetuate many commonly held beliefs.62” In this way, the cartoons of this category of iconography contribute to establishing a distinctive public image for HGP. The rhetoric and framing of these cartoons highlights the “revolutionary” character of HGP and the importance which it has for the understanding of human nature. Thus, the media frame of these cartoons is that of “technoscientific ‘progress’ and the utility derived from it.” Meanwhile, it reproduces the linguistic metaphors and stereotypes according to which human through science and technology plays or is “God.”

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