Backdoor to eugenics
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Backdoor to eugenics
Routledge, 1990
- pbk.
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Backdoor to eugenics
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-193) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The enormous advances in recent biomedical genetics have blinded us to their socially dangerous spin-offs. In "Backdoor to Eugenics", Troy Duster grapples with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. He sees the promise of the new technologies for lessening human suffering but warns against the appropriators who ominously substitute genetic answers to problems linked to identifiable groups such as Jews, Scandinavians, African-Americans, Italians and Arabs. This development has fuelled the kind of old-line thinking about race and ethnicity that was popular at the turn of the century, but temporarily buried after World War II. The author documents an increasing propensity to see crime, mental illness, and even intelligence as expressions of genetic predisposition. He shows how we are ignoring evidence for the causes of problems thereby weakening our ability to address and solve them. It is ironic that today's technology has identified select social groups as being at higher risk for specific genetic disorders.
Thus we may be unwittingly opening and accepting eugenics by the backdoor in efforts to control an ever widening band of "genetic defects" and "genetic disorders". Duster urges us not to sell the new genetics technologies short, but also not to inflate what can be done with them.
目次
- Inherited genetic disorders and inherited social disorders
- the prism of heritability and the sociology of knowledge - what questions, whose questions?
- the genetic screening of "target" populations
- dilemmas of a "general" genetic disorder control policy
- neutrality and ideology in genetic disorder control
- the increasing appropriation of genetic explanations
- eugenics by the backdoor.
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