Celeste Condit
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Celeste Condit's Degrees
- PhD Speech Communication University of Georgia
- Masters Speech Communication University of Georgia
- Bachelors Speech Communication University of Georgia
Why Is Celeste Condit Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Celeste Michelle Condit is an American professor and scholar of rhetorical criticism. Her work focuses on the rhetoric of racism, biology, the human genome, and feminism. In 2018, the Public Address Conference described Condit as "a pioneer in understanding and improving public communication about genetics." She currently holds the role of Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia.
Celeste Condit's Published Works
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- The rhetorical limits of polysemy (1989) (396)
- Genetic research and health disparities. (2004) (261)
- Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change (1989) (239)
- Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word (1993) (188)
- Hegemony in a mass-mediated society: concordance about reproductive technologies. (1994) (164)
- The functions of epideictic: The Boston massacre orations as exemplar (1985) (155)
- Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: a focus group study of public understandings of genetic research. (2005) (152)
- Future health applications of genomics: priorities for communication, behavioral, and social sciences research. (2010) (151)
- How the public understands genetics: non-deterministic and non-discriminatory interpretations of the “blueprint” metaphor (1999) (145)
- The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity (1999) (142)
- The psychometric property and validation of a fatalism scale (2009) (140)
- Determinism and mass-media portrayals of genetics. (1998) (132)
- Re‐constructing Narrative Theory: A Functional Perspective (1985) (129)
- Functions of health fatalism: fatalistic talk as face saving, uncertainty management, stress relief and sense making. (2009) (125)
- Contemporary rhetorical theory : a reader (1999) (105)
- What is 'public opinion' about genetics? (2001) (98)
- Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits: genes, environments, and personal behaviors. (2003) (96)
- The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication (2005) (91)
- Public attitudes and beliefs about genetics. (2010) (89)
- What does “A gene for heart disease” mean? A focus group study of public understandings of genetic risk factors (2003) (83)
- The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States (2004) (81)
- An Exploratory Study of the Impact of News Headlines on Genetic Determinism (2001) (79)
- Assessing hypothetical scenario methodology in genetic susceptibility testing analog studies: a quantitative review (2007) (78)
- Reconstructing : Culturetypal and counter‐cultural Rhetorics in the martyred black vision (1990) (74)
- Deriving lay models of uncertainty about genes' role in illness causation to guide communication about human genetics (2004) (71)
- Crafting virtue: The rhetorical construction of public morality (1987) (68)
- Democracy and civil rights: The universalizing influence of public argumentation (1987) (67)
- Believing in both genetic determinism and behavioral action: a materialist framework and implications (2009) (67)
- Informed lay preferences for delivery of racially varied pharmacogenomics (2003) (65)
- Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors (2002) (59)
- Rhetorical Criticism and Audiences: The Extremes of McGee and Leff. (1990) (58)
- In Praise of Eloquent Diversity: Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion (1997) (57)
- Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals: When a Picture Is Not Worth a Thousand Words. (2005) (54)
- Attitudinal barriers to delivery of race-targeted pharmacogenomics among informed lay persons (2003) (53)
- How geneticists can help reporters to get their story right (2007) (51)
- The changing meanings of “mutation:” A contextualized study of public discourse (2002) (51)
- Culture and biology in human communication: Toward a multi‐causal model (2000) (48)
- Post‐burke: Transcending the sub‐stance of Dramatism (1992) (44)
- Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code (2001) (44)
- How lay people respond to messages about genetics, health, and race (2005) (44)
- The Misunderstood Gene (2002) (43)
- Lay people's understanding of and preference against the word “mutation” (2004) (42)
- The Rhetorical Boundaries of "the Law": A Consideration of the Rhetorical Culture of Legal Practice and the Case of the "Separate but Equal" Doctrine. (1996) (41)
- Public Understanding of Risks from Gene-Environment Interaction in Common Diseases: Implications for Public Communications (2010) (41)
- Lay understandings of the relationship between race and genetics: Development of a collectivized knowledge through shared discourse (2002) (41)
- Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective (2008) (40)
- Development and validation of tools to assess genetic discrimination and genetically based racism. (2005) (39)
- A preliminary study of how multiple exposures to messages about genetics impact on lay attitudes towards racial and genetic discrimination (2008) (38)
- Visualizing nanotechnology: the impact of visual images on lay American audience associations with nanotechnology (2009) (38)
- Objectivity and elites: A creation science trial (1988) (38)
- Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A resource Book Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A resource Book Roxanne Louiselle Parrott Celeste Michelle Condit Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A resource Book Editor Sage Publications 445pp £28.50 0-7619-0057-8 0761900578. (1996) (38)
- Behavioral Health Outcomes Associated With Religious Faith and Media Exposure About Human Genetics (2004) (37)
- Blueprints and Recipes: Gendered Metaphors for Genetic Medicine (2001) (36)
- Beliefs about heritability of cancer and health information seeking and preventive behaviors (2009) (36)
- Evaluating Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Race-Based Pharmacogenomics: A Focus Group Study of Public Understandings of Applied Genomic Medication (2004) (34)
- Audience Responses to the Discourses of Medical Genetics: Evidence Against the Critique of Medicalization (1997) (33)
- When Do People Deploy Genetic Determinism? A Review Pointing to the Need for Multi-factorial Theories of Public Utilization of Scientific Discourses (2011) (33)
- The critic as empath: Moving away from totalizing theory (1993) (32)
- Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women (2000) (31)
- Recent rhetorical studies in public understanding of science: Multiple purposes and strengths (2012) (31)
- Science reporting to the public: Does the message get twisted? (2004) (31)
- Genetics, race, and crime: An audience study exploring the bell curve and book reviews (2001) (28)
- Pathos in Criticism: Edwin Black's Communism-As-Cancer Metaphor (2013) (27)
- How BAD SCIENCE STAYS THAT WAY: BRAIN SEX, DEMARCATION, AND THE STATUS OF TRUTH IN THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE (1996) (27)
- Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals (2005) (26)
- The rhetoric of objectivity in the newspaper coverage of a murder trial (1985) (25)
- Communication as Relationality (2005) (23)
- Genes and race in the news: a test of competing theories of news coverage. (2006) (21)
- Principles and practices of communication processes for genetics in public health (2000) (21)
- Laypeople Are Strategic Essentialists, Not Genetic Essentialists. (2019) (20)
- Hegemony, concordance, and capitalism: Reply to Cloud (1996) (20)
- Malcolm X and the Limits of the Rhetoric of Revolutionary Dissent (1993) (19)
- Clouding the issues? The ideal and the material in human communication (1997) (19)
- Consent Issues in Genetic Research: Views of Research Participants (2016) (19)
- Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11 (2018) (18)
- Perceived Levels of Health Risk Associated with Linguistic Descriptors and Type of Disease (2004) (18)
- Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought: Rhetoric in Transition (1995) (17)
- The rhetoric of equality and the expatriation of African‐Americans, 1776‐1826 (1991) (16)
- Toward new “sciences” of human behavior (2000) (16)
- Rhetorical Methods of Applied Communication Scholarship (2009) (15)
- The Birth of Understanding: Chaste Science and the Harlot of the Arts (Chautauqua: Are Rhetoric and Science Incompatible?). (1990) (15)
- Framing Kenneth Burke: Sad tragedy or comic dance? (1994) (14)
- What Should Be the Character of the Researcher- Participant Relationship? Views of Participants in a Long-standing Cancer Genetic Registry. (2015) (14)
- How Culture and Science Make Race "Genetic": Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous (2008) (14)
- The Meaning and Effects of Discourse about Genetics: Methodological Variations in Studies of Discourse and Social Change (2004) (13)
- Participant views on consent in cancer genetics research: preparing for the precision medicine era (2016) (12)
- Feminist Biologies: Revising Feminist Strategies and Biological Science (2008) (12)
- "Mind the Gaps": Hidden Purposes and Missing Internationalism in Scholarship on the Rhetoric of Science and Technology in Public Discourse (2013) (12)
- Book reviewAn unfinished revolution: Women and health care in America: Edited by Emily Friedman. United Hospital Fund of New York, New York, 1994. Soft cover, US$20.00 (1995) (11)
- What Makes Our Scholarship Feminist? A Radical/Liberal View (1988) (10)
- Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies (1996) (9)
- Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health (1996) (8)
- Dynamic feelings about metaphors for genes: Implications for research and genetic policy (2009) (7)
- Willingness to decrease mammogram frequency among women at low risk for hereditary breast cancer (2019) (7)
- Human Equality, Affirmative Action, and Genetic Models of Human Variation (2001) (7)
- Do Women who Receive a Negative BRCA1/2 Risk Result Understand the Implications for Breast Cancer Risk? (2019) (7)
- The Rhetoric of Intelligent Design: Alternatives for Science and Religion (2010) (7)
- Controversies among Cancer Registry Participants, Genomic Researchers, and Institutional Review Boards about Returning Participants’ Genomic Results (2018) (7)
- Contributions of the rhetorical perspective to the social placement of medical genetics (1995) (7)
- Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory 1787-1900 (review) (2010) (6)
- Participants’ Role Expectations in Genetics Research and Re-consent: Revising the Theory and Methods of Mental Models Research Relating to Roles (2016) (6)
- Insufficient Fear of the "Super-flu"?The World Health Organization's Global Decision-Making for Health (2014) (6)
- The new science of human reproduction: A reflection on the inadequacy of “disciplines” for the understanding of human life (1993) (5)
- Generalization through similarity: motif discourse in the discovery and elaboration of zinc finger proteins (2007) (5)
- Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Rhetorical Criticism (2006) (5)
- Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Methodology That Preserves Polyvocal Coder Input (2003) (5)
- Two sides to every question: The impact of news formulas on abortion policy options (1994) (4)
- Views of Cohort Study Participants about Returning Research Results in the Context of Precision Medicine (2016) (4)
- Ecocentrism and argumentative competence: Roots of a postmodern argument theory from the brazilian deforestation debate (1995) (4)
- Depiction of gene-environment relationships in online medical recommendations (2008) (4)
- The Changing Culture of Rhetorical Studies (2001) (4)
- Public Health Experts, Expertise, and Ebola: A Relational Theory of Ethos (2019) (4)
- Laypeople and behavioural genetics (2006) (4)
- How Ought Critical Communication Scholars Judge, Here, Now? (2013) (3)
- Narrative and social change: A case study of the Wagner act of 1935 (2001) (3)
- Reply to Nelkin and Lindee (1998) (3)
- The character of scientists in the Nobel Prize speeches (2018) (3)
- Projecting Possible Lines of Sight for RSSTM (2013) (3)
- On Measurement Instruments for Fatalism (2013) (3)
- Rhetoricians on Human Remaking and the Project of Genomics (2018) (3)
- The spread of Ebola: How the world health organization’s rhetoric contributed to virus transmission (2015) (2)
- Reading audiences: a reflection on the politics of the production of racism (2001) (2)
- From Trope to Pathos in Health Scholarship: Sharing Disgust in the Kermit Gosnell Case (2015) (2)
- TV Articulates Abortion in America: Competition and the Production of a Cultural Repertoire (1987) (2)
- The Supra-Cyborg (2018) (2)
- Feminized Power and Adversarial Advocacy: Levelling Arguments or Analyzing Them? (1989) (2)
- Did we come all that way for this? A critical review of Aune's Rhetoric and Marxism (1996) (1)
- Words for World-Crafting (2019) (1)
- Two stories of the scopes trial: Legal and journalistic articulations of the legitimacy of science and religion (2009) (1)
- Many Thanks to our Reviewers for 2010 (2011) (1)
- Multi-Layered Trajectories for Academic Contributions to Social Change (2015) (1)
- Multiple Voices, Messy Truths: Rhetoricians on Ethos, Authors, and Authority (2022) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers - October 2015 to September 2016. (2017) (0)
- The Practice of Transformation-Oriented Anti-Colonial Dialogue: Personae in Post-9/11 Novels by Pakistani Authors in English (2022) (0)
- Reviewer Acknowledgment (2009) (0)
- Click politics and the ecosphere, 2020 (2019) (0)
- Believing in genetic determinism and behavioral action: Data and speculations on the implications of a materialist open-network theory of discourse (2007) (0)
- The editor-in-chief and associate editors wish to express their gratitude to the following individuals who have graciously accepted responsibility for review- ing manuscripts for issues of Community Genetics. (2015) (0)
- Do Conservation Films Generate Support for Conservation? A Case Study Using Transportation Theory and Hidden Rivers (2022) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- Science and Communication (2016) (0)
- Studying genetic popularization (2001) (0)
- Bruce Gronbeck’s Gift: A Hermeneutics of Hospitality (2015) (0)
- Rhetorical strategies for retrieving abortion rights (2022) (0)
- African Americans and White Americans Understanding of the Relationship between Religion and Health Behaviors (2008) (0)
- Title Participant views on consent in cancer genetics research : preparing for the precision medicine era Permalink (2016) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2007) (0)
- How Can We Integrate Interests and Reasoned Arguments in Bioethics? (2019) (0)
- EquIPmEnT FOR RIFFIng : ADvAnCED TExT-READIng TACTICS AnD POLyvALEnT COnSTRAInTS In mySTERy SCIEnCE ThEATER 3000 (2014) (0)
- A Posthumanist Archaeological Expedition (2001) (0)
- Changing Feelings: Government and Globalization (2012) (0)
- Corrigendum (2009) (0)
- Willingness to decrease mammogram frequency among women at low risk for hereditary breast cancer (2019) (0)
- Two stories of the Scopes trial (2014) (0)
- Making Angry Public Rhetorics Work Better for a Global 'Us' (2018) (0)
- Participant views on consent in cancer genetics research: preparing for the precision medicine era (2016) (0)
- Lay Understanding of the Relationship between Genes and Environment in Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, and Diabetes: Global and Refined Mental Models (2008) (0)
- Accounting for ‘genetics’ and ‘race’ requires a use-focused theory of language (2019) (0)
- Multiple Voices, Messy Truths (2020) (0)
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