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The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes
- Title
- The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes / Jay Joseph.
- Author
- Joseph, Jay.
- Publication
- New York : Algora Pub., ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC455.4.G4 J675 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 324 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Researchers still haven't found the genes that underlie schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and autism; perhaps they do not exist. A genetic researcher in psychiatry and psychology urges we return our focus to family, social, and political environments as the sources of psychological distress.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-308) and indexes.
- Contents
- The twin method: science or pseudoscience? -- ADHD genetic research -- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- A generation misinformed: psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research -- Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis: a primary scource for misunderstanding the genetics of schizophrenia -- Autism and genetics: much ado about very little -- The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- The twin method's Achilles' heel: a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature -- Bipolar disorder and genetics -- Genotype or genohype? the fruitless search for genes in psychiatry.
- ISBN
- 0875864104
- 9780875864105
- 0875864112
- 9780875864112
- 0875864120
- 9780875864129
- LCCN
- 2005025161
- OCLC
- ocm61456586
- 61456586
- SCSB-9776384
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library