5 Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control -- The Professional Ideology of the Genetic Counselor -- Two Sides (at Least) of the Genetic Counselor -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- The Genetic Counseling of Screened Carriers -- Screening in Orchomenos, Greece -- Field Interviews in Orchomenos -- 6 The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations -- Who is Making the "Genetic Claims"? -- Is the Issue Really "Hard" vs. "Soft" Science? -- The Problematic of the Genetics of Criminals -- Appropriation of Genetics for IQ and Race -- Appropriating the Genetics of Mental Illness -- "Appropriation" and the "Genetics of Depression"--7 Eugenics by the Back Door -- Sylvia Tesh and the Notion of "Hidden Arguments" -- Successful Models of Prenatal Intervention, Low-Cost and Low-Technology -- Registered Prenatal Detection as Disease Prevention Policy: The Gun on the Wall -- Hidden Arguments and Multifactorial Disorders -- National and State Genetic Registries -- The Achievements and the Halo of Molecular Genetics -- Backdoor Eugenics -- 8 Human Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, and Social Stratification -- From Biological Darwinism to Social Darwinism -- "As Humans Can Be Stratified in Evolutionary Development, So Can Cultures" -- The Germination of Human Genetics in Social Evolutionary Soil: The Birth of Human Population genetics and Human Mendelian -- Trouble at the Bottom: Continuity and Persistence -- The Violence Initiative: Continuity with the Past via the Irrepressible Link -- Afterword: The New and Emerging Relationship between Behavioral and Molecular Genetics -- The Human Genome Project and the "Turn to Difference" -- The MAOA Gene and Predicting Violent Behavior -- Race and DNA: Tensions and Current Tendencies Relevant to Behavioral Genetics.
Book Details
- Country: US
- Published: 2004-03
- Publisher: Routledge
- Language: English
- Pages: 260
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