Backdoor to Eugenics

Troy Duster (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2003 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-94805-0 (ISBN)

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Considered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking book that grappled with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. Completely updated and revised, this work will be welcomed back into print as we struggle to understand the pros and cons of prenatal detection of birth defects; gene therapies; growth hormones; and substitute genetic answers to problems linked with such groups as Jews, Scandanavians, Native American, Arabs and African Americans. Duster's book has never been more timely.

Troy Duster

Preface Introduction by Pierre Bourdieu Acknowledgements 1. Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social Orders 2. The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge: What Questions? Whose Questions 3. The Genetic Screening of "Target" Populations 4. Dilemmas of a "General" Genetic Disorder Control Policy 5. Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control 6. The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations 7. Eugenics by the Back Door Appendix A: Intermediate Steps between Micro and Macro Integration: The Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders Appendix B: Screening Issues in Counselling Appendix C: The Ethnic Distribution of Disease Notes References Index

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-94805-3 / 0415948053
ISBN-13	978-0-415-94805-0 / 9780415948050
Zustand	Neuware