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The Politics of Heredity : Essays On Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-nurture Debate SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology
author
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Paul, Diane B.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0791438228
print isbn13
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9780791438220
ebook isbn13
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9780585091358
language
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English
subject
Human genetics--Political aspects--History, Eugenics--Political aspects--History, Nature and nurture--Political aspects--History.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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QH431.P34 1998eb
ddc
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174/.25
subject
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Human genetics--Political aspects--History, Eugenics--Political aspects--History, Nature and nurture--Political aspects--History.
The Politics Of Heredity
SUNY Series, Philosophy and Biology David Edward Shaner, editor
The Politics Of Heredity
Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate
Diane B. Paul
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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1998 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Paul, Diane B., 1946 The politics of heredity : essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate / Diane B. Paul. p. cm. (SUNY series, philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3821-X (hardcover : alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3822-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human geneticsPolitical aspects-History. 2. Eugenics Political aspectsHistory. 3. Nature and nurturePolitical aspectsHistory. I. Title. II. Series: SUNY series in philosophy and biology. QH431.P34 1998 174'.25dc2197-45212 CIP
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Page v
Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
1. Introduction
1
2. Eugenics and the Left
11
3. The Nine Lives of Discredited Data
37
4. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Origins of Behavior Genetics
53
5. A Debate That Refuses to Die
81
6. Eugenic Anxieties, Social Realities, and Political Choices
95
7. Did Eugenics Rest on an Elementary Mistake?
117
8. Eugenic Origins of Medical Genetics
133
9. Genes and Contagious Disease: The Rise and Fall of a Metaphor
My views on the nature-nurture debate have been profoundly shaped and sharpened through a process of friendly (and he might add, "dialectical") struggle with Richard Lewontin. Although our perspectives are sometimes quite different, he has been an unfailingly supportive as well as astute critic of my work. My debt to him is enormous. David Shaner, the series editor, has shown the patience of a saint during the more than four years that it took me to get what might seem a simple job done. Among the many colleagues and friends who, over the years, gave generously of their time and shared their ideas and sometimes unpublished manuscripts, I want especially to thank Garland Allen, John Beatty, Raphael Falk, Jonathan Harwood, Evelyn Fox Keller, Daniel J. Kevles, Philip Kitcher, Robert Proctor, Nils Roll-Hansen, Hamish Spencer, Paul Weindling, and Leila Zenderland. A special debt is owed Michael Ruse, who first urged me to collect these essays in one volume.
A version of chapter 2, "Eugenics and the Left," first appeared in the October/December 1984 issue of
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