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Behavioral genetics : the clash of culture and biology / edited by Ronald A. Carson and Mark A. Rothstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Behavior genetics.
- Genetics--Sociological aspects.
- Genetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Throughout, the authors focus on two basic concerns: the quality of the science behind behavioral genetic claims and the need to formulate an appropriate, ethically defensible response when science turns out to be good." -- Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics "The finest currently available as an introduction to the issues that are involved in, and arise because of, the revival in behavioral genetics research." -- Religious Studies Review.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Amazing Grace: Sources of Phenotypic Variation in Genetic Boosterism; 2 In the Mainstream: Research in Behavioral Genetics; 3 Identifying the Molecular Genetic Basis of Behavioral Traits; 4 Complexity and Research Strategies in Behavioral Genetics; 5 Behavioral Genetic Determinism: Its Effects on Culture and Law; 6 Predicting and Punishing Antisocial Acts: How the Criminal Justice System Might Use Behavioral Genetics; 7 Behavioral Genetics and Dismantling the Welfare State; 8 The Social Consequences of Genetic Disclosure
- 9 The Fate of the Responsible Self in a Genetic AgeIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7492-0
- OCLC:
- 923191166
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