Blinded by Science : The Social Implications of Epigenetics and Neuroscience /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: White, Susan, 1961- (Author), Wastell, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Neurosciences > Social aspects
Neurosciences > Moral and ethical aspects
Sociological Factors.
Neurosciences > ethics.
Epigenomics > ethics.
Neurosciences > Social aspects.
Neurosciences > Moral and ethical aspects.
Epigenetics > Social aspects.
Epigenetics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Getting to grips with the thought styles. Biology and the drive for human improvement
  • How knowledge gets made in neuroscience and molecular biology
  • Blaming the brain
  • Part II. Fixing real people. The precarious infant brain
  • The cat is out of the bag : from early intervention to child protection
  • Perfecting people : the inexorable rise of prevention science
  • Epigenetics : rat mum to my Mum?
  • Human epigenetics prematurely born(e)?
  • Are we broken? : fixing people (or society) in the 21st century

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