Behavioral genetics : the clash of culture and biology / edited by Ronald A. Carson and Mark A. Rothstein.

Date:
[1999]
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Publication/Creation

[Baltimore] : [Johns Hopkins University Press], [1999]

Physical description

xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Amazing grace: sources of phenotype variation in genetic boosterism / Allan J. Tobin -- In the mainstream: research in behavioral genetics / David C. Rowe and Kristen C. Jacobson -- Identifying the molecular genetic basis of behavioral traits / Stephanie L. Sherman and Irwin D. Waldman -- Complexity and research strategies in behavioral genetics / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- Beahvioral genetic determinism: its effects on culture and law / Mark A. Rothstein -- Predicting and punishing antisocial acts: how the criminal justice system might use behavioral genetics / Lori B. Andrews -- Behavioral genetics and dismantling the welfare state / Dorothy Nelkin -- The social consequences of genetic disclosure / Troy Duster -- The fate of the responsible self in a genetic age / Ronald A. Carson

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Includes bibliographic references and index

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  • 0801860695