Author | Duster, Troy |
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Title | Backdoor to eugenics [electronic resource] / Troy Duster |
Imprint | New York : Routledge, 2003 |
Edition | 2nd ed |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=105896 |
Descript | xvi, 240 p. ; 24 cm |
Inherited genetic disorders and inherited social orders -- The prism of heritability and the sociology of knowledge: what questions? Whose questions? -- The genetic screening of "target" populations -- Dilemmas of a "general" genetic disorder control policy -- Neutrality and ideology in genetic disorder control -- The increasing appropriation of genetic explanations -- Eugenics by the back door -- Human genetics, evolutionary theory, and social stratification -- Afterword: The new and emerging relationship between behavioral and molecular genetics