Genetic explanations
Subtitle: sense and nonsense
By: edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780674064461
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Communication; Genetic Phenomena; Genetic Determinism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mismeasure of the gene / Ruth Hubbard; title: Evolution is not mainly a matter of genes / Stuart Newman; title: Genes as difference makers / Evelyn Fox Keller; title: Big B, little b : myth #1 is that Mendelian genes actually exist / David S. Moore; title: The myth of the machine organism / Stephen L. Talbott; title: Some problems with genetic horoscopes / Eva Jablonka; title: Cancer genes : the vestigial remains of a fallen theory / Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto; title: The fruitless search for genes in psychiatry and psychology : time to reexamine a paradigm / Jay Joseph and Carl Ratner; title: Assessing genes as causes of human disease in a multi-causal world / Carl Cranor; title: Help for autistics : the shifting roles of genetics, complexity, and judgment / Martha Herbert; title: The prospects of personalized medicine / David Jones; title: The persistent influence of failed scientific ideas / Jon Beckwith; title: Map your own genes! the DNA experience / Susan Lindee; title: The myth of the perfect baby / Shirley Shalev; title: The potential fallibility of forensic DNA evidence / William Thompson; title: Nurturing nature : how parental care changes genes / Mae-Wan Ho.