Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation

Book Overview

Hardly a month goes by without a media report proclaiming thatresearchers have discovered the gene for some complex human behavioror trait - intelligence, dyslexia, shyness, homosexuality. The practicalimplications of genetic research can bring great good - relieving parentsof self-blame for a child's schizophrenia or autism and possibly treatinggenetic diseases in the future. Other findings - or perniciousinterpretations of them - can cause great harm, for example, byestablishing flawed connections between genetics, race, andeducational attainment. Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics bringstogether an interdisciplinary group of contributors - human geneticists, humanists, social scientists, lawyers, and journalists - to discuss theethical and social implications of behavioral genetics research

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882249
• ISBN13: 9780801882241
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"