The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking

This volume reflects on the effects of recent discoveries in genetics on a broad range of scientific fields. In addition to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and medicine, contributors analyze the effects of genetics on theories of health, law, epistemology and philosophy of biology....

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fagot-Largeault, Anne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rahman, Shahid (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Torres, Juan Manuel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
Σειρά:Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science ; 6
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Preface -- Introduction -- Overview of Contents -- An Historical Outline and Further Reading -- The Editors -- Interview with François Jacob; Anne Fagot-Largeault -- Genetics and the Life Sciences -- Genetics and the Human Lineage: Can Genetics Throw Some Light on the Evolution of the Human Lineage?; Francisco José Ayala, Miguel Ángel Capó, Camilo José Cela-Conde and Marcos Nadal -- Genetics and Neuroscience. Some Examples of their Recent Convergence and of the Continuing Nature-Nurture Controversy, With Emphasis on Sleep Physiology; Claude Debru -- Who Made the Genetic Code, How and By What?; Koichiro Matsuno -- Genetics, Life and Death: Genetics as Providing a Definition of Life and Death; Michel Morange -- Genetics and Philosophy of Science: The Reductionism Debate and Beyond -- Moving Beyond the Influence of Molecular Genetics on the Debate about Reductionism in Philosophy of Biology; Frederic Bouchard -- The concept of Gene in Contemporary Biology: Continuity or Dissolution?; Jean Gayón -- The Influence of Genetics on Philosophy of Science: Classical Genetics and the Structuralist View of Theories; Pablo Lorenzano -- Epi-Geneticization: Where Biological and Philosophical Thinking Meet; Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver and Dani De Waele -- Genetics and the Ethical, Legal and Sociological Debate -- Is DNA Revolutionizing Medicine?; Anne Fagot-Largeault -- The Harm to be a Clone; Jean-Yves Goffi -- Children of One’s Own: Parenthood and the Illusion of Control; Jonathan Michael Kaplan -- Is a Transcultural Law for Human Genetics and Biotechnology Possible?; Carlos María Romeo-Casabona -- Genetics and Society: A Different View; Juan Manuel Torres -- Name Index -- Subject Index. 
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