Jonathan Michael Kaplan

The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research

Dangers For Social Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415926379
• ISBN-10: 0415926378
• Artikelnr.: 21714124

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Michael Kaplan

Inhaltsangabe

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