Blinded by science : the social implications of epigenetics and neuroscience / [electronic resource]
Wastell, David,author.
White, Susan,1961-author.
This timely book critically examines the capabilities and limitations of new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, that are used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, exploring their implications for policy and practice.
Specialized.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Getting to grips with the thought styles. Biology and the drive for human improvement -- How knowledge gets made in neuroscience and molecular biology -- Blaming the brain -- Part II. Fixing real people. The precarious infant brain -- The cat is out of the bag : from early intervention to child protection -- Perfecting people : the inexorable rise of prevention science -- Epigenetics : rat mum to my Mum? -- Human epigenetics prematurely born(e)? -- Are we broken? : fixing people (or society) in the 21st century
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This timely book critically examines the capabilities and limitations of new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, that are used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, exploring their implications for policy and practice.
Epigenetics
Neurosciences