Title: The nature of difference : science, society and human biology /
Authors: Ellison, G. T. H.; Goodman, Alan H.; Society for the Study of Human Biology.; Wellcome Trust (London, England); Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Publisher: CRC Taylor & Francis,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Genetics, Behavioral; Bioethics; Sociobiology; Difference (Psychology) Congresses.; Human biology Moral and ethical aspects Congresses.; Human genetics Moral and ethical aspects Congresses.
Contents: Part 1. Looking for 'Nature' in Human Nature -- Is There a Biological Basis for Morality? / Matt Cartmill -- Biological Determinism and Its Critics: Some Lessons from History / Robert Dingwall, Brigitte Nerlich, and Samantha Hillyard -- The Scientific and Cultural Meaning of the Odious Ape-Human Comparison / Jonathan Marks -- Everyday Explanations of Diversity and Difference: The Role of Lay Ontologizing / Kevin Durrheim and John Dixon -- Part 2. Geneticization and the Nature of Difference -- Inventing the History of a Genetic Disorder: The Case of Huntington's Disease / Alice Wexler -- Constructing and Deconstructing the "Gay Gene": Media Reporting of Genetics, Sexual Diversity, and "Deviance" / Jenny Kitzinger -- The Dilemma of Predictable Disablement: A Challenge for Families and Society / Tom Shakespeare -- Race in Medicine: From Probability to Categorical Practice / Richard Ashcroft -- Part 3. Scientific Practice and the Pursuit of Difference -- The Truth Will Out: Scientific Pragmatism and the Geneticization of Race and Ethnicity / Simon M. Outram and George T.H. Ellison -- Indigenous Peoples, Bioanthropological Research, and Ethics in Brazil: Issues in Participation and Consent / Ricardo Ventura Santos -- To the Science, to the Living, to the Dead: Ethics and Bioarchaeology / Bethany L. Turner, Diana S. Toebbe, and George J. Armelagos -- Seeing Culture in Biology / Alan Goodman.