Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze to what extent the new multi-disciplinary field recently created, public health genomics, displays rhetoric. The rhetoric will be examined through its proper meaning as the art of speech, but also through its actual pejorative meaning as the opposition between words and actions, information and misinformation. The main goal of public health genomics is the effective and responsible translation of genomic knowledge for public health ends. The PHG wants to bridge over two presumably opposed fields: the biomedical domain on one side and public health on the other. But is it really the case? What is hidden behind this discourse?