Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics - Hardcover

Panofsky, Aaron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022605831X ISBN 13: 9780226058313

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the criminal chromosome” to the gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Many behavior geneticists have encountered accusations of racism and have had their scientific authority and credibility questioned, ruining reputations, and threatening their access to coveted resources.

In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its origins in the 1950s, telling the story through close looks at five major controversies. In the process, Panofsky argues that persistent, ungovernable controversy in behavior genetics is due to the broken hierarchies within the field. All authority and scientific norms are questioned, while the absence of unanimously accepted methods and theories leaves a foundationless field, where disorder is ongoing. Critics charge behavior geneticists with political motivations; champions say they merely follow the data where they lead. But Panofsky shows how pragmatic coping with repeated controversies drives their scientific actions. Ironically, behavior geneticists’ struggles for scientific authority and efforts to deal with the threats to their legitimacy and autonomy have made controversy inevitableand in some ways essentialto the study of behavior genetics.

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Aaron Panofsky is assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy and Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 022605831X
• ISBN 13: 9780226058313
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 321
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