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Genetic explanations sense and nonsense / edited by Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [(c)2013.]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674067769
  • 0674067762
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QH426.5
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The mismeasure of the gene / Ruth Hubbard -- Evolution is not mainly a matter of genes / Stuart Newman -- Genes as difference makers / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Big B, little b : myth #1 is that Mendelian genes actually exist / David S. Moore -- The myth of the machine organism / Stephen L. Talbott -- Some problems with genetic horoscopes / Eva Jablonka -- Cancer genes : the vestigial remains of a fallen theory / Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto -- The fruitless search for genes in psychiatry and psychology : time to reexamine a paradigm / Jay Joseph and Carl Ratner -- Assessing genes as causes of human disease in a multi-causal world / Carl Cranor -- Autism : from static genetic brain defect to dynamic gene-environment-modulated pathophysiology / Martha Herbert -- The prospects of personalized medicine / David Jones -- The persistent influence of failed scientific ideas / Jon Beckwith -- Map your own genes! the DNA experience / Susan Lindee -- Creating a "better baby" : the role of genetics in contemporary reproductive practices / Shirley Shalev -- Forensic DNA evidence : the myth of infallibility / William C. Thompson -- Nurturing nature : how parental care changes genes / Mae-Wan Ho.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The mismeasure of the gene / Ruth Hubbard -- Evolution is not mainly a matter of genes / Stuart Newman -- Genes as difference makers / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Big B, little b : myth #1 is that Mendelian genes actually exist / David S. Moore -- The myth of the machine organism / Stephen L. Talbott -- Some problems with genetic horoscopes / Eva Jablonka -- Cancer genes : the vestigial remains of a fallen theory / Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto -- The fruitless search for genes in psychiatry and psychology : time to reexamine a paradigm / Jay Joseph and Carl Ratner -- Assessing genes as causes of human disease in a multi-causal world / Carl Cranor -- Autism : from static genetic brain defect to dynamic gene-environment-modulated pathophysiology / Martha Herbert -- The prospects of personalized medicine / David Jones -- The persistent influence of failed scientific ideas / Jon Beckwith -- Map your own genes! the DNA experience / Susan Lindee -- Creating a "better baby" : the role of genetics in contemporary reproductive practices / Shirley Shalev -- Forensic DNA evidence : the myth of infallibility / William C. Thompson -- Nurturing nature : how parental care changes genes / Mae-Wan Ho.

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