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Considered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking book that grappled with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. Completely updated and revised, this work will be welcomed back into print as we struggle to understand the pros and cons of prenatal detection of birth defects; gene therapies; growth hormones; and substitute genetic answers to problems linked with such groups as Jews, Scandanavians, Native American, Arabs and African Americans. Duster's book has never been more timely.
| Foreword: Advocating a "Genethics" | ||
| Preface to the Second Edition | ||
| Preface to the First Edition | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social Orders | 3 |
| 2 | The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge: What Questions? Whose Questions? | 21 |
| 3 | The Genetic Screening of "Target" Populations | 39 |
| 4 | Dilemmas of a "General" Genetic Disorder Control Policy | 60 |
| 5 | Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control | 79 |
| 6 | The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations | 95 |
| 7 | Eugenics by the Back Door | 114 |
| 8 | Human Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, and Social Stratification | 132 |
| Afterword: The New and Emerging Relationship between Behavioral and Molecular Genetics | 146 | |
| App. A | Intermediate Steps between Micro and Macro Integration: The Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders | 164 |
| App. B | Screening Issues in Counseling | 171 |
| App. C | The Ethnic Distribution of Disease | 194 |
| Notes | 197 | |
| References | 212 | |
| Index | 234 |
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