{"product_id":"genetic-explanations-hardcover-by-sheldon-krimsky","title":"Genetic Explanations Hardcover by Sheldon Krimsky","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHarvard University Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-02-26)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e384\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780674064461\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eCan genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. \u003ci\u003eGenetic Explanations\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eSheldon Krimsky is Professor of Urban \u0026amp; Environmental Policy \u0026amp; Planning in the School of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Public Health \u0026amp; Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Gruber is President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon Beckwith is American Cancer Society Research Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl F. Cranor is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Member of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program at the University of California, Riverside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid S. Jones, Ph.D., M.D., is A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Fox Keller was Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous honorary degrees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. Susan Lindee is Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eSuffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoments of Truth in Genetic Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46554164297889,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780674064461","price":67.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780674064461.jpg?v=1781757309","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/genetic-explanations-hardcover-by-sheldon-krimsky","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}