From revered to reviled: A cross-cultural narrative analysis of the South Korean cloning scandal

Science Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-197

  Kruvand, Marjorie ^a   Hwang, Sungwook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Cross cultural research; Scientific fraud; South Korea; Stem cell research

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748943480     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547007307963     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. American Association for the Advancement of Science. (n.d.). About AAAS. Retrieved March 24, 2006, from http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/
2. Bae, S.H. (2006, March 27). Leader's forum: Democracy of the era converging broadcasting and telecommunications. ETNEWS. Retrieved March 27, 2006, from http://www.etnews.co.kr/news/detail.html?id=200603240061
3. Baek, S.J. (2004, February 13). The way of organ cloning is opened: Professor Hwang and Moon's team cultivated stem cells for the first time from human egg cells. Chosunilbo, p. A1.
4. Berdayes, L.C., & Berdayes, V. (1998). The information highway in contemporary magazine narrative. Journal of Communication, 2, 109-125.
5. Berger, A.A. (1997). Narratives in popular culture, media, and everyday life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
6. Carmichael, M. (2005). Eggs, lies, stem cells. Newsweek, 23, 41.
7. Cho, D.S. (2004, April 23). True hero is here. Chosunilbo, p. A31.
8. Choe, S-H. (2006, January 12). South Korea scientist contrite for stem cell fraud. The New York Times, p. A15.
9. Choi, J.H. (2004, February 25). A hero during the era without heroes. Dongailbo. Retrieved from http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?sfrm=2&n= 200402250361
10. Chosunilbo Special Reporting Team. (2006, January 10). SNU investigation committee concluded that "Professor Hwang fabricated 2004 paper as well." Chosunilbo, p. Al.
11. Cook, G. (2004 a, April 4). After two children via IVF, pair faced stem cell issue. The Boston Globe, p. A1.
12. Cook, G. (2004 b, May 23). U.S. stem cell research lagging without aid, work moving overseas. The Boston Globe, p. A1.
13. Cunningham, A. (2005). Research leader of the year: Woo Suk Hwang. Scientific American, 6, 48.
14. Eisenberg, D., & Fonda, D. (2004, December 27). People who mattered 2004. Time (International Asia edition), 164 / 165, 116-157. Retrieved March 3, 2006, from http://www.time.com/time/asia/2004/personoftheyear/people/ hwang_woo_suk.html
15. Fackler, M. (2006, March 16). In Korea, bureaucrats lead the technology charge. The New York Times, p. C1.
16. Family Research Council, Center for Human Life & Bioethics. (2004). Human cloning and the abuse of science. Retrieved March 27, 2006, from http://downloads.frc.org/14-MAR-06__EF04J45_962205.pdf
17. Fisher, W.R. (1989). Human communication as narration: Toward a philosophy of reason, value and action. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
18. Foss, S.K. (2004). Rhetorical criticism (3 rd ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland.
19. Gitlin, T. (1980). The whole world is watching: Mass media in the making and unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press.
20. Greene, D. (2006, July 19). Bush vetoes bill to expand stem cell research. All things considered, National Public Radio. Retrieved November 11, 2006, fromhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568219
21. Herman, L., & Vervaeck, B. (2005). Handbook of narrative analysis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
22. Heuvel, J.V., & Dennis, E.E. (1993). The unfolding lotus: East Asia's changing media. New York: Freedom Forum.
23. Huxford, J. (2000). Framing the future: Science fiction frames and press coverage of cloning. Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2, 187-199.
24. Hwang, W.S., Roh, S.I., Roh, L.S.I., Lee, B.C., Kang, S.K., Kwon, D.K., et al. (2005). Patient-specific embryonic stem cells derived from human SCNT blastocysts. Science, 308 (5729). 1777-1783.
25. Hwang, W.S., Ryu, Y.J., Park, J.H., Park, E.S., Lee, E.G., Koo, J.M., et al. (2004). Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst. Science, 303 (5664). 1669-1674.
26. International Society for Stem Cell Research. (2004). Frequently asked questions on stem cell research. Retrieved March 29, 2006, from http://www.isscr.org/public/faq_printversion.html
27. Kalb, C. (2004, February 23). A new cloning debate. Newsweek, 143 (8). 50.
28. Kim, C.J., & Lee, Y.W. (2005, May 20). "God's hand" Hwang, is he able to relieve human beings of their agony of diseases? The way is opened to change ill cells into new ones. Chosunilbo, p. A1.
29. Kim, S.H. (2005, December 22). The dynamics around Woo Suk Hwang. Edaily. Retrieved March 22, 2006, from http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode= LSD&office_id=018&article_id=0000341430§ion_id=105&menu_id= 105
30. Kim, Y.J. (2006, January 13). " Without endeavors extreme enough to be crazy, things could not be accomplished. We were crazy for our work." Chosunilbo, p. A6.
31. Kolata, G. (2005 a, May 20). Koreans report ease in cloning for stem cells. The New York Times, p. A1.
32. Kolata, G. (2005 b, December 18). A cloning scandal rocks a pillar of science publishing. The New York Times, p. A28.
33. Lee, B.C., Kim, M.K., Jang, G., Oh, H., Yuda, F., Kim, H.J., et al. (2005, August 4). Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells. Nature, 436 (7051). 641.
34. Lee, Y.W. (2004, August 11). Blue House "my love Woo Suk Hwang": Nationally support and manage "not to lose stem cell research." Chosunilbo, p. A3.
35. Lemonick, M.D., Thomas, C.B., & Park, A. (2005, August 15). Woof! woof! Who's next? Time, 166 (7). 54.
36. Leydesdorff, L., & Hellstein, I. (2005). Metaphors and diaphors in science communication: Mapping the case of stem cell research. Science Communication, 1, 64-99.
37. Miller, J.D. (2002). Breaking news or broken news: A brief history of the "first cloned human embryo" story. Nieman Reports, 2, 18-21.
38. Moon, I. (2005, July 18). Stem cell sleuth. Business Week, Issue 3943, p. 20.
39. National Conference of State Legislatures. (2005). State human cloning laws. Retrieved November 3, 2006, from http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/ genetics/rt-shcl.htm
40. National Conference of State Legislatures. (2006). State embryonic and fetal research laws. Retrieved November 3, 2006, from http://www.ncsl.org/ programs/health/genetics/embfet.htm
41. National Institutes of Health. (2001). Stem cells: Scientific progress and future research directions. Retrieved April 1, 2006, from http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/scireport/
42. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. (2005). Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
43. Nisbet, M.C. (2004). Public opinion about stem cell research and human cloning. Public Opinion Quarterly, 1, 131-154.
44. Nisbet, M.C., Brossard, D., & Kroepsch, A. (2003). Framing science: The stem cell controversy in an age of press/politics. Press / Politics, 8 (2). 36-70.
45. Onishi, N. (2006, January 22). In a country that craved respect, stem cell scientist rode a wave of Korean pride. The New York Times, p. 12A.
46. Park, A., & Gorman, C. (2005, May 30). Inside the Korean cloning lab. Time, 165 (22). 54-59.
47. Park, J., & Park, J. (2000). How two Korean newspapers covered the Starr report. Newspaper Research Journal, 4, 83-98.
48. Parson, A.B. (2004). The proteus e fect: Stem cells and their promise for medicine. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.
49. Pollack, A., Dean, C., & Dreifus, C. (2004, February 13). Medical and ethical issues cloud cloning for therapy. The New York Times, p. A22.
50. Riessman, C.K. (1993). Narrative analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
51. Rogers, E., Dearing, J., & Chang, S. (1991). AIDS in the 1980s: The agenda-setting process of a public issue. Journalism Monographs, 126, 1-47.
52. Running for cover. (2005). The Economist, 8458, 107-108.
53. Scott, C.T. (2006). Stem cell now: From the experiment that shook the world to the new politics of life. New York: Pi Press.
54. Sell, S. (Ed.). (2004). Stem cells handbook. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
55. Shoemaker, P.J., & Reese, S.D. (1996). Mediating the message: Theories of influences on mass media content. White Plains, NY: Longman.
56. Winett, L.B., & Lawrence, R.G. (2005). The rest of the story: Public health, the news, and the 2001 anthrax attacks. Press/Politics, 3, 3-25.
57. Youm, K.H. (1996). Press law in South Korea. Ames: Iowa State University Press.
58. Wade, N., & Choe, S.H. (2006, January 10). Researcher faked evidence of human cloning, Koreans report. The New York Times, p. A1.
59. Zitner, A. (2003). Reporting the cloning story: From hype to healthy skepticism. Nieman Reports, 2, 25-27.