Behavioral Genetics: The Clash of Culture and Biology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801872308 ISBN 13: 9780801872303

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Scientists conducting human genome research are identifying genetic disorders and traits at an accelerating rate. Genetic factors in human behavior appear particularly complex and slow to emerge, yet are raising their own set of difficult ethical, legal, and social issues. In Behavioral Genetics: The Clash of Culture and Biology, Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein bring together well-known experts from the fields of genetics, ethics, neuroscience, psychiatry, sociology, and law to address the cultural, legal, and biological underpinnings of behavioral genetics. The authors discuss a broad range of topics, including the ethical questions arising from gene therapy and screening, molecular research in psychiatry, and the legal ramifications and social consequences of behavioral genetic information. Throughout, they focus on two basic concerns: the quality of the science behind behavioral genetic claims and the need to formulate an appropriate, ethically defensible response when the science turns out to be good.

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Ronald A. Carson is the Harris L. Kempner Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in Medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Mark A. Rothstein is a professor of bioethics, health, law at the University of Louisville.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801872308
• ISBN 13: 9780801872303
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Herausgeber: Carson Dr. Ronald A.
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