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Title Davenport's dream : 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics / edited by Jan A. Witkowski, John R. Inglis
Published Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Contents Preface / Jan A. Witkowski and John R. Inglis -- Foreword / Matt Ridley -- Genes and Politics / James D. Watson -- Charles Benedict Davenport, 1866-1944 / Jan A. Witkowski -- The Eugenic World of Charles Benedict Davenport / Elof A. Carlson -- Davenport's Dream / Maynard V. Olson -- Genetic Determinism and Evolutionary Ethics: A Mitochondrial Perspective / Douglas C. Wallace -- Psychiatric Genetics in an Era of Relative Enlightenment / Daniel R. Weinberger and David Goldman -- Genes in Mind? / Lindsey Kent and Simon Baron-Cohen -- Davenport and Heredity Counseling / Philip R. Reilly -- Genetics and Equality / Ronald Dworkin -- Genetics and Human Nature / Lewis Wolpert -- A Reprint of Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport follows page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index
Subject Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944. Heredity in relation to eugenics
Human genetics -- Social aspects.
Human genetics -- History.
Eugenics.
Author Witkowski, J. A. (Jan Anthony), 1947-
Inglis, J. R. (John R.)
Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944. Heredity in relation to eugenics
LC no. 2007050996
ISBN 9780879697563 hardcover : cover alkaline paper
0879697563 hardcover : cover alkaline paper