Backdoor to EugenicsRoutledge, 2004 - 260 pagina's 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. |
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1 Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social Orders | 2 |
What Questions? Whose Questions? | 20 |
3 The Genetic Screening of Target Populations | 37 |
4 Dilemmas of a General Genetic Disorder Control Policy | 57 |
5 Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control | 76 |
6 The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations | 92 |
7 Eugenics by the Back Door | 111 |
8 Human Genetics Evolutionary Theory and Social Stratification | 129 |
The New and Emerging Relationship between Behavioral and Molecular Genetics | 143 |
The Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders | 161 |
APPENDIX B Screening Issues in Counseling | 168 |
APPENDIX C The Ethnic Distribution of Disease | 193 |
Notes | 196 |
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