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Challenging Genetic DeterminismNew Perspectives on the Gene in Its Multiple Environments |
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Compelling essays on understanding the interplay of genes in society.
Advances in genetic research have captured the attention of the media and the public through reports about genetically caused diseases and behaviours. However, all too often the coverage of scientists' innovations has implied that genetic factors alone are responsible for effects ranging from personality and sexual preferences to morbid obesity and intellectual disabilities. Challenging Genetic Determinism argues that hypotheses cannot be based solely on genetic factors but must take into account the context in which these factors occur.
Reviewing a century of developments in understanding the interplay of genes and environments, contributors demonstrate the importance of considering contextual influences as well as genetic factors and provide a comprehensive method for understanding recent research findings. The compelling new findings presented by various contributors highlight how personality traits, complex diseases and behaviours, and social and ethical issue, are all related to the interaction of genes and the environment.
Reviewing a century of developments in understanding the interplay of genes and environments, contributors demonstrate the importance of considering contextual influences as well as genetic factors and provide a comprehensive method for understanding recent research findings. The compelling new findings presented by various contributors highlight how personality traits, complex diseases and behaviours, and social and ethical issue, are all related to the interaction of genes and the environment.
Details
344 Pages, 6 x 9
3 tables
ISBN 9780773538139
August 2011
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Louis Maheu is an emeritus professor of sociology at Université de Montréal.
Roderick A. Macdonald is F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University.
Roderick A. Macdonald is F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University.
Challenging Genetic Determinism
Edited by Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Contributors xi
Introduction xiii
Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
The Changing Boundaries of Genes and Social Environment in Perspective: An Overview 3
Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
SECTION ONE - GENES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS 49
Special Challenges of Complex Behavioural Traits: Gene Discovery and Applications 51
Douglas Wahlsten
Personality Genetics 78
Jonathan Flint
Gene x Stress Interactions: An Integrative Perspective 99
David Goldman
SECTION TWO - SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES CHALLENGING GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS 127
Gene-Environment Interaction: The Gulf Between What We Know and What We Do 129
Françoise Baylis
Public Representations of Genetics: Reifying Race? 158
Timothy Caulfield
An Interaction of Genes in Our Social Environment: Genetic Discrimination Among Persons at Risk for Huntington Disease 182
Yvonne Bombard and Michael R. Hayden
SECTION THREE - INTERACTIVE MODELS OF GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS: SOME EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS 205
From Social Learning Research to Experimental Epigenetic Research on Antisocial Behaviour Development: The Case of Physical Aggression 207
Richard E. Tremblay
Overcoming Health Disparities: The Power of a Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression 225
Martha K. McClintock, Sarah Gehlert, Suzanne D. Conzen, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, and Thomas Krausz
Learning to Live Again with Uncertainty: Social Repercussions of Molecular Genomics 249
Margaret Lock
Conclusion 287
Roderick A. Macdonald and Louis Maheu
Index 309
Edited by Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Contributors xi
Introduction xiii
Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
The Changing Boundaries of Genes and Social Environment in Perspective: An Overview 3
Louis Maheu and Roderick A. Macdonald
SECTION ONE - GENES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS 49
Special Challenges of Complex Behavioural Traits: Gene Discovery and Applications 51
Douglas Wahlsten
Personality Genetics 78
Jonathan Flint
Gene x Stress Interactions: An Integrative Perspective 99
David Goldman
SECTION TWO - SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES CHALLENGING GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS 127
Gene-Environment Interaction: The Gulf Between What We Know and What We Do 129
Françoise Baylis
Public Representations of Genetics: Reifying Race? 158
Timothy Caulfield
An Interaction of Genes in Our Social Environment: Genetic Discrimination Among Persons at Risk for Huntington Disease 182
Yvonne Bombard and Michael R. Hayden
SECTION THREE - INTERACTIVE MODELS OF GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INTERPLAYS: SOME EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS 205
From Social Learning Research to Experimental Epigenetic Research on Antisocial Behaviour Development: The Case of Physical Aggression 207
Richard E. Tremblay
Overcoming Health Disparities: The Power of a Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression 225
Martha K. McClintock, Sarah Gehlert, Suzanne D. Conzen, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, and Thomas Krausz
Learning to Live Again with Uncertainty: Social Repercussions of Molecular Genomics 249
Margaret Lock
Conclusion 287
Roderick A. Macdonald and Louis Maheu
Index 309
