The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research

Dangers For Social Policy

Jonathan Michael Kaplan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2000
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92637-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Jonathan Michael Kaplan

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2000
Reihe/Serie	Reflective Bioethics
Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-92637-8 / 0415926378
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92637-9 / 9780415926379
Zustand	Neuware