Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research Dangers For Social Policy
Heftet /
2000
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415926386
Publisert
2000-06-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
236
Forfatter
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.
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Jonathan Kaplan weighs the evidence for genetic determinism of such human traits as intelligence, depression, homosexuality and violence, and argues that neither genes nor the environment alone can explain the complex variations amongst humans.
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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;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415926386
Publisert
2000-06-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
236
Forfatter