Behavioral Genetics

Ronald A. Carson is the Harris L. Kempner Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in Medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Mark A. Rothstein is a professor of bioethics, health, law at the University of Louisville.

• Contents and Contributors: Foreword, Floyd E. Bloom * Preface, Ronald A. Carson and Mark A. Rothstein * Amazing Grace: Sources of Phenotype Variation in Genetic Boosterism, Allan J. Tobin * In the Mainstream: Research in Behavioral Genetics, David C. Rowe and Kristen C. Jacobson * Identifying the Molecular Genetic Basis of Behavioral Traits, Stephanie L. Sherman and Irwin D. Waldman * Complexity and Research Strategies in Behavioral Genetics, Kenneth F. Schaffner * Behavioral Genetic Determinism: Its Effect on Culture and Law, Mark A. Rothstein * Predicting and Punishing Antisocial Acts: How the Criminal Justice System Might Use Behavioral Genetics, Lori B. Andrews * Behavioral Genetics and Dismantling the Welfare State, Dorothy Nelkin * The Social Consequences of Genetic Disclosure, Troy Duster * The Fate of the Responsible Self in a Genetic Age, Ronald A. Carson

Throughout, the authors focus on two basic concerns: the quality of the science behind behavioral genetic claims and the need to formulate an appropriate, ethically defensible response when science turns out to be good. This book [is] a top priority for any person, lay or academic, working or studying in this complex field. Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics [T]his volume is the finest currently available as an introduction to the issues that are involved in, and arise because of, the revival in behavioral genetics research. -- Robert A. Crouch Religious Studies Review