The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

State University of New York Press (1998)
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Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics

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9780791438213   079143821X   0791438228

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