Bioethics in popular science: evaluating the media impact of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on the biobank debate

Table 3 Correlations among ethical themes

	(1) Cons	(2) Welf	(3) Comp	(4) Prog	(5) Cont	(6) Acct	(7) Priv	(8) Edu	(9) Adv
(1) Consent	1.00
(2) Welfare	.26**	1.00
(3) Compensation	.26**	.15	1.00
(4) Progress	−.01	.02	.11	1.0
(5) Control	.19*	.20*	.05	.16#	1.00
(6) Accountability	.16#	.00	.09	.14	.27**	1.00
(7) Privacy	.11	.13	-.12	.06	.28**	.24**	1.00
(8) Education	.05	-.09	-.01	.16#	.26**	.36**	.31**	1.00
(9) Advocacy	.00	-.02	.14	.15	.23**	.29**	-.09**	.21*	1.00

Note: Analysis based on coding of population of 125 articles. Each theme or frame of reference was coded as “not present = 0,” “present = 1,” or “outstanding focus/appearing in the lede/headline” of the article/transcript = 2. For analysis of correlations among themes, “outstanding focus/appearing in lede/headline” and “present categories” were combined, leaving a dichotomous measure where “1 = theme present” and “0 = theme not present”.

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