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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- 1. Amazing Grace: Sources of Phenotype Variation
- 2. In the Mainstream: Research in Behavioral Genetics
- 3. Identifying the Molecular Genetic Basis of Behavioral Traits
- 4. Complexity and Research Strategies in Behavioral Genetics
- 5. Behavioral Genetic Determinism: Its Effects on Culture and Law
- 6. Predicting and Punishing Antisocial Acts: How the Criminal Justice System Might Use Behavioral Genetics
- 7. Behavioral Genetics and Dismantling the Welfare State
- 8. The Social Consequences of Genetic Disclosure
- 9. The Fate of the Responsible Self in a Genetic Age
- Index