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Challenging Genetic Determinism : New Perspectives on the Gene in Its Multiple Environments.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773586543
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Challenging Genetic DeterminismDDC classification:
  • 576.5/3
LOC classification:
  • QH438.5 .R69 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- The Changing Boundaries of Genes and Social Environment in Perspective: An Overview -- SECTION ONE - GENES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS -- Special Challenges of Complex Behavioural Traits: Gene Discovery and Applications -- Personality Genetics -- Gene x Stress Interactions: An Integrative Perspective -- SECTION TWO - SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES CHALLENGING GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS -- Gene-Environment Interaction: The Gulf Between What We Know and What We Do -- Public Representations of Genetics: Reifying Race? -- An Interaction of Genes in Our Social Environment: Genetic Discrimination Among Persons at Risk for Huntington Disease -- SECTION THREE - INTERACTIVE MODELS OF GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS: SOME EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS -- From Social Learning Research to Experimental Epigenetic Research on Antisocial Behaviour Development: The Case of Physical Aggression -- Overcoming Health Disparities: The Power of a Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression -- Learning to Live Again with Uncertainty: Social Repercussions of Molecular Genomics -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Compelling essays on understanding the interplay of genes in society.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- The Changing Boundaries of Genes and Social Environment in Perspective: An Overview -- SECTION ONE - GENES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS -- Special Challenges of Complex Behavioural Traits: Gene Discovery and Applications -- Personality Genetics -- Gene x Stress Interactions: An Integrative Perspective -- SECTION TWO - SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES CHALLENGING GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS -- Gene-Environment Interaction: The Gulf Between What We Know and What We Do -- Public Representations of Genetics: Reifying Race? -- An Interaction of Genes in Our Social Environment: Genetic Discrimination Among Persons at Risk for Huntington Disease -- SECTION THREE - INTERACTIVE MODELS OF GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS: SOME EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS -- From Social Learning Research to Experimental Epigenetic Research on Antisocial Behaviour Development: The Case of Physical Aggression -- Overcoming Health Disparities: The Power of a Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression -- Learning to Live Again with Uncertainty: Social Repercussions of Molecular Genomics -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Compelling essays on understanding the interplay of genes in society.

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