| The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate Contributor(s): Paul, Diane B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791438228 ISBN-13: 9780791438220 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: 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, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them -- each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 174.25 |
| LCCN: 97-45212 |
| Series: Suny Series, Philosophy & Biology |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.82" W x 8.82" (0.68 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays collected in The Politics of Heredity explore the political factors underlying shifts in thinking about the role of nature and nurture in shaping human behavior, and about the desirability and feasibility of controlling human reproduction. They ask why many assumptions that were simply taken for granted as late as the 1950s and '60s came to be considered fundamentally mistaken in the 1970s and '80s. They also suggest that some apparent shifts in thinking were not as deep as they may seem, and that changes in rhetoric may obscure the stability of core underlying beliefs. |