The politics of heredity : essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate /

This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paul, Diane B., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Colección:SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
Temas:
Human genetics > Political aspects > History.
Eugenics > Political aspects > History.
Nature and nurture > Political aspects > History.
Politics, Practical.
Genetics, Medical > history
Eugenics > history
Politics
Génétique humaine > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Eugénisme > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Hérédité et milieu > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Politique.
politics.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Politics, Practical
Eugenics > Political aspects
Nature and nurture > Political aspects
Génétique médicale > Histoire.
Eugénisme > Histoire.
Politique > Histoire.
Eugenik
Politik
Genetica.
Eugenetica.
Politieke aspecten.
Hereditariedade.
Genética.
Eugenia.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Eugenics and the left
  • The nine lives of discredited data
  • The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics
  • A debate that refuses to die
  • Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices
  • Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake?
  • Eugenic origins of medical genetics
  • Genes and contagious disease : the rise and fall of a metaphor
  • PKU screening : competing agendas, converging stories.

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