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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Tác giả chính: Paul, Diane B., 1946-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Loạt:SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.