Title The politics of heredity : essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate / Diane B. Paul.

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]
	©1998

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	SUNY series, philosophy and biology
	SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Eugenics and the left -- The nine lives of discredited data -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics -- A debate that refuses to die -- Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? -- Eugenic origins of medical genetics -- Genes and contagious disease : the rise and fall of a metaphor -- PKU screening : competing agendas, converging stories.
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Subject	Human genetics -- Political aspects -- History.
	Human genetics.
	History.
	Eugenics -- Political aspects -- History.
	Eugenics -- Political aspects.
	Eugenics.
	Nature and nurture -- Political aspects -- History.
	Nature and nurture -- Political aspects.
	Nature and nurture.
	Genetics, Medical -- history.
	Eugenics -- history.
	Politics.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Paul, Diane B., 1946- Politics of heredity. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998 079143821X (DLC) 97045212 (OCoLC)37980665
ISBN	0585091358 (electronic book)
	9780585091358 (electronic book)
	079143821X
	0791438228