Backdoor to EugenicsRoutledge, 1990 - 201 pagina's A discussion of the social and political implications of genetic technologies. The author says that by using genes as a scapegoat, we are ignoring evidence for the causes of problems such as crime and mental illness and subsequently paving the way for the development of eugenics. |
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The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of | 19 |
The Genetic Screening of Target Populations | 37 |
Dilemmas of a General Genetic Disorder | 58 |
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