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Joseph Jay |
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Titolo |
The gene illusion [[electronic resource] ] : genetic research in psychiatry and psychology under the microscope / / Jay Joseph |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Algora Pub., 2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-87586-345-0 |
1-4175-6159-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mental illness - Genetic aspects |
Genetic psychology |
Twins - Psychology - Research - Methodology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""The Gene Illusion""; ""The Gene Illusion""; ""Genetic Research""; ""in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope""; ""Jay Joseph, Psy.D.""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Outline of the Chapters""; ""Family Studies""; ""Terms Used in the Book""; ""Chapter 2. Twin Research: Misunderstanding Twins, From Galton to the 21st Century""; ""Twin Research from 1870 to 1924""; ""Galton""; ""Thorndike""; ""Origins of the Twin Method""; ""Developments in Twin Research, 1924-1945""; ""Early Criticism of the Twin Method"" |
""Developments in North America"" ""Twins Reared Apart""; ""The Co-twin Control Method""; ""Twin Research in Germany""; ""Twin Research From 1945-1960""; ""Kallmann""; ""Selected Topics in Twin Research""; ""Twin Research From 1960 to 1980""; ""Don Jackson's Critique of Schizophrenia Twin Research""; ""Nadir""; ""Twin Research Makes a Comeback""; ""Twin Research in the 1970's""; ""Twin Research from 1980 to the Present""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 3. The Twin Method: An Environmentally Confounded Research Technique""; ""The Equal Environment Assumption (EEA)""; ""Two Definitions"" |
""Do Identical and Fraternal Twins Create Differing Environments?"" |
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""Kendler's Theoretical Retreat""; ""A Critique of the Trait-Relevant Equal Environment Assumption""; ""Family Studies and the Trait-Relevant EEA""; ""What Leading Twin Researchers Say About the EEA""; ""Attempts to Test the Validity of the Equal Environment Assumption""; ""Loehlin and Nichols, 1976""; ""Scarr and Carter-Saltzman""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 4: Genetic Studies of Twins Reared Apart: A Critical Review""; ""Part I: Identical Twins Reared Apart as Folklore""; ""Influence of the Cohort"" |
""Part II: Scientific Studies of Twins Reared Apart"" ""The Myth of the Separated Identical Twins""; ""The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart""; ""Secret Data, Secret Lives""; ""Environmental Factors Contributing to MZA Resemblance""; ""What About the DZA Correlations?""; ""MZTs (or DZAs) as the Control Group: The Invalidating Flaw of All Twins Reared Apart Studies""; ""What a Valid MZA Study Might Look Like""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5. The Heritability Concept: A Measure of Inheritance or Inherently Misleading?""; ""What Heritability Is and What It Is Not"" |
""Origins of the Heritability Concept"" ""What is the Purpose of a Heritability Coefficient?""; ""An Exchange on the Meaning of Heritability""; ""A Heritability Estimate: The Product of Environmentally Confounded Research""; ""Heritability and Psychiatric Disorders""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6. The Genetics of Schizophrenia I: Overview""; ""History and Prevalence of Schizophrenia""; ""The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia""; ""Schizophrenia Twin Research""; ""Three Low Concordance Rate Studies""; ""Schizophrenia Twin Researchers' Interpretations of Concordance Rate Differences"" |
""Same Sex- and Opposite-Sex Fraternal Twin Concordance Rates"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Genetic factors are increasingly presented as an important influence on psychiatric disorders, personality, intelligence, and various types of socially unacceptable behavior - as if that were an unassailable fact, proven by research. Jay Joseph's timely, |
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