Backdoor to Eugenics

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ISBN: 9780415948050 | 0415948053
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/19/2003

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In an age of DNA profiling, cloning, and test tube babies, much of what Troy Duster first predicted about the social dangers of biomedical genetics has come true. Considered a classic since its publication on the eve of the Human Genome Project, this new edition of Backdoor to Eugenics reenters the debate with a Foreword by the late Pierre Bourdieu and a new Preface, chapter, and Afterword by the author. Book jacket.

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Foreword: Advocating a "Genethics," by Pierre Bourdieu	vii
Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
1. Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social orders	3	(18)
2. The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge: What Questions? Whose Questions?	21	(18)
3. The Genetic Screening of "Target" Populations	39	(21)
4. Dilemmas of a "General" Genetic Disorder Control Policy	60	(19)
5. Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control	79	(16)
6. The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations	95	(19)
7. Eugenics by the Back Door	114	(18)
8. Human Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, and Social Stratification	132	(14)
Afterword: The New and Emerging Relationship between Behavioral and Molecular Genetics	146	(18)
Appendix A: Intermediate Steps between Micro and Macro Integration: The Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders	164	(7)
Appendix B: Screening Issues in Counseling	171	(23)
Appendix C: The Ethnic Distribution of Disease	194	(3)
Notes	197	(15)
References	212	(22)
Index	234

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