Studying human behavior : how scientists investigate aggression and sexuality / Helen E. Longino.

  • Longino, Helen E.
Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

xi, 249 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-232) and indexes.

Contents

Approaches to understanding human behavior -- Quantitative behavioral genetics -- Social-environmental approaches -- Molecular behavioral genetics -- Neurobiological approaches -- Integrative approaches -- Scope and limits of the approaches -- Epistemological, ontological, and social analysis -- What we could know -- Defining behavior -- The social life of behavioral science -- A brief conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780226492889
  • 0226492885