Wrestling with behavioral genetics
Subtitle: science, ethics, and public conversation
By: edited by Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press.
Contributors: Parens, Erik, 1957-; Chapman, Audrey R.; Press, Nancy, 1947-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Behavior genetics -- Popular works; Genetics, Behavioral; Genetics, Behavioral -- ethics
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Behaving: its nature and nurture, part 1 / Kenneth F. Schaffner; title: Behaving: its nature and nurture, part 2 / Kenneth F. Schaffner; title: Whither human behavioral genetics? / Jonathan Beckwith; title: Mobiles: a gloomy view of the future of research into complex human traits / Eric Turkheimer; title: On the prospects for using genetics to understand human behavior: promises and risk / Steven E. Hyman; title: Social construction and medicalization: behavioral genetics in context / Nancy Press; title: The implications of behavioral genetics inquiry for explanations of the link between crime, violence, and race / Troy Duster; title: Impulsivity, responsibility, and the criminal law / Harold Edgar; title: Behavioral genetics and equality / Dan W. Brock; title: Thinking ourselves free: behavioral genetics and moral responsibility / Gregory E. Kaebnick; title: Normality and the significance of difference / Robert Wachbroit; title: How do you create a public conversation about behavioral genetics? / Leonard Fleck; title: Lay people's resources to deal with behavioral genetics / Celeste Condit, Roxanne Parrott, and Tina Harris; title: Behavioral genetics and the media / Rick Weiss.