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000701462 24500 $$aGenetic explanations$$h[electronic resource] :$$bsense and nonsense /$$cedited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber.
000701462 260__ $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2013.
000701462 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 368 pages) :$$billustrations
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000701462 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000701462 5050_ $$aThe mismeasure of the gene / Ruth Hubbard -- Evolution is not mainly a matter of genes / Stuart Newman -- Genes as difference makers / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Big B, little b : myth #1 is that Mendelian genes actually exist / David S. Moore -- The myth of the machine organism / Stephen L. Talbott -- Some problems with genetic horoscopes / Eva Jablonka -- Cancer genes : the vestigial remains of a fallen theory / Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto -- The fruitless search for genes in psychiatry and psychology : time to reexamine a paradigm / Jay Joseph and Carl Ratner -- Assessing genes as causes of human disease in a multi-causal world / Carl Cranor -- Help for autistics : the shifting roles of genetics, complexity, and judgment / Martha Herbert -- The prospects of personalized medicine / David Jones -- The persistent influence of failed scientific ideas / Jon Beckwith -- Map your own genes! the DNA experience / Susan Lindee -- The myth of the perfect baby / Shirley Shalev -- The potential fallibility of forensic DNA evidence / William Thompson -- Nurturing nature : how parental care changes genes / Mae-Wan Ho.
000701462 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000701462 520__ $$a"Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer's, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell's fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding." -- Publisher's description.
000701462 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
000701462 650_0 $$aGenetics.
000701462 650_0 $$aGenomics.
000701462 7001_ $$aGruber, Jeremy.
000701462 7001_ $$aKrimsky, Sheldon.
000701462 77608 $$iPrint version:$$tGenetic explanations.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013$$z9780674064461$$w(DLC)  2012005988$$w(OCoLC)777002264
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