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Genetic explanations : sense and nonsense /
"Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer's, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. She...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The mismeasure of the gene / Ruth Hubbard
- Evolution is not mainly a matter of genes / Stuart Newman
- Genes as difference makers / Evelyn Fox Keller
- Big B, little b : myth #1 is that Mendelian genes actually exist / David S. Moore
- The myth of the machine organism / Stephen L. Talbott
- Some problems with genetic horoscopes / Eva Jablonka
- Cancer genes : the vestigial remains of a fallen theory / Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto
- The fruitless search for genes in psychiatry and psychology : time to reexamine a paradigm / Jay Joseph and Carl Ratner
- Assessing genes as causes of human disease in a multi-causal world / Carl Cranor
- Autism : from static genetic brain defect to dynamic gene-environment-modulated pathophysiology / Martha Herbert
- The prospects of personalized medicine / David Jones
- The persistent influence of failed scientific ideas / Jon Beckwith
- Map your own genes! the DNA experience / Susan Lindee
- Creating a "better baby" : the role of genetics in contemporary reproductive practices / Shirley Shalev
- Forensic DNA evidence : the myth of infallibility / William C. Thompson
- Nurturing nature : how parental care changes genes / Mae-Wan Ho.