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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1998.
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| 丛编: | SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5514 |
书本目录:
- 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.