Kenneth F Schaffner

Behaving

What's Genetic, What's Not, and Why Should We Care?

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the nature-nurture controversy and recent history and methodology of behavioral and psychiatric genetics. It discusses genetic reductionism, determinism, heritability, free will, and quantitative and molecular genetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780195171402
• ISBN-10: 0195171403
• Artikelnr.: 47869767

Autorenporträt

Kenneth F. Schaffner (Ph.D., Columbia, 1967; M.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986) is Distinguished University Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research on the foundations and methodology of behavioral and psychiatric genetics has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures and Tables
* Preface and Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1. Behaving: Its Nature and Nurture (Part 1)
* 2. Behaving: Its Nature and Nurture (Part 2)
* 3. Genes, Behavior, and the Developmentalist Challenge: One Process,
Indivisible?
* 4. What's a Worm Got to Do with It? - Model Organisms and Deep
Homology
* 5. Reduction: The Cheshire Cat Problem and a Return to Roots
* 6. Human Behavioral Genetics: Personality Studies, Depression,
Gene-Environment Interplay, and the Revolutionary Results of GWAS
* 7. Schizophrenia Genetics: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches
* 8. What's Genetic, What's Not, and Why Should We Care?
* 9. Summary and Conclusion
* Index