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The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research
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Dangers For Social Policy
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Artikel-Nr:
9780415926379
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.07.2000
Seiten:
236
Autor:
Jonathan Michael Kaplan
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
237x156x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jonathan Michael Kaplan
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.
Chapter 1 Explaining Differences; Chapter 2 Varieties of Determinism; Chapter 3 Genes and Causation; Chapter 4 IQ and Social Policy; Chapter 5 Criminality and Violence; Chapter 6 Gay Genes and the Reification of Homosexuality; Chapter 7 On the Medicalization of Mood-Affective Disorders; Chapter 8 Born to be Fat? Culture and the Meaning of Weight; Chapter 9 Contract Pregnancies and Genetic Parenthood; Chapter 10 The Concept of the Environment;