The DNA Mystique: The Gene As a Cultural Icon

Nelkin and Lindee analyze the striking presence of genetic images in popular culture, where DNA has been touted as an explanation for personality, a source of crime, and the cause of individual success or failure.

• Author
• Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 286

• Publisher
• W. H. Freeman

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780716730491

• Genres
• science, school, sociology

• Release date
• 1996