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Wrestling with behavioral genetics : science, ethics, and public conversation

Title

Wrestling with behavioral genetics : science, ethics, and public conversation / edited by Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press.

Format

Book

Published

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Description

xxxv, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006475.html

Other contributors

Parens, Erik, 1957- Chapman, Audrey R. Press, Nancy, 1947-

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Behavior: its nature and nurture, part 1 / Kenneth F. Schaffner
• Behavior: its nature and nurture, part 2 / Kenneth F. Schaffner
• Whither human behavioral genetics? / Jonathan Beckwith
• Mobiles: a gloomy view of research into complex human traits / Eric Turkheimer
• Using genetics to understand human behavior: promises and risks / Steven E. Hyman
• Social construction and medicalization: behavioral genetics in context / Nancy Press
• Behavioral genetics and explanations of the link between crime, violence, and race / Troy Duster
• Impulsivity, responsibility, and criminal law / Harold Edgar
• Behavioral genetics and equality / Dan W. Brock
• Behavioral genetics and moral responsibility / Gregory E. Kaebnick
• Normality and the significance of difference / Robert Wachbroit
• Creating public conversation about behavioral genetics / Leonard Fleck
• Laypeople and behavioral genetics / Celeste Condit, Roxanne Parrott, and Tina Harris
• Behavioral genetics and the media / Rick Weiss.

Subject headings

Behavior genetics--Popular works.

Medical subjects

Genetics, Behavioral. Genetics, Behavioral--ethics.

ISBN

0801882249 (hardcover : alk. paper)