文档介绍：Behavioral ics
Behavioral ics
The Clash of Culture and Biology
Edited by
Ronald A. Carson
Harris L. Kempner Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities in Medicine
Director, Institute for the Medical Humanities
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, Texas
and Mark A. Rothstein
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen
Distinguished Professor of Law
Director, Health Law and Policy Institute
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore and London
© 1999 The Johns Hopkins University Press
All rights reserved. Published 1999
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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ISBN 0-8018-6069-5
Contents
Foreword, by Floyd E. Bloom vii
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
List of Contributors xv
1. Amazing Grace: Sources of Phenotype Variation
in ic Boosterism
Allan 1
2. In the Mainstream: Research in Behavioral ics
David C. Rowe and Kristen C. Jacobson 12
3. Identifying the Molecular ic Basis
of Behavioral Traits
Stephanie L. Sherman and Irwin 35
4. Complexity and Research Strategies
in Behavioral ics
h F. Schaffner 61
5. Behavioral ic Determinism:
Its Effects on Culture and Law
Mark A. Rothstein 89
6. Predicting and Punishing Antisocial Acts: How the
Criminal Justice System Might Use Behavioral ics
Lori B. Andrews 116
7. Behavioral ics and Dismantling the Welfare State
Dorothy Nelkin 156
8. The Social Consequences of ic Disclosure
Troy Duster 172
9. The Fate of the Responsible Self in a ic Age
Ronald A. Carson 189
Index 201
Foreword
As a medically trained neuroscientist, my lifelong approach to
diseases of the brain and behavior has been to