The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Fagot-Largeault, Anne. (Editor ), Rahman, Shahid. (Editor ), Torres, Juan Manuel. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 6
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5664-2
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Overview of Contents
  • An Historical Outline and Further Reading
  • The Editors
  • Interview with François Jacob; Anne Fagot-Largeault
  • Genetics and the Life Sciences
  • Genetics and the Human Lineage: Can Genetics Throw Some Light on the Evolution of the Human Lineage?; Francisco José Ayala, Miguel Ángel Capó, Camilo José Cela-Conde and Marcos Nadal
  • Genetics and Neuroscience. Some Examples of their Recent Convergence and of the Continuing Nature-Nurture Controversy, With Emphasis on Sleep Physiology; Claude Debru
  • Who Made the Genetic Code, How and By What?; Koichiro Matsuno
  • Genetics, Life and Death: Genetics as Providing a Definition of Life and Death; Michel Morange
  • Genetics and Philosophy of Science: The Reductionism Debate and Beyond
  • Moving Beyond the Influence of Molecular Genetics on the Debate about Reductionism in Philosophy of Biology; Frederic Bouchard
  • The concept of Gene in Contemporary Biology: Continuity or Dissolution?; Jean Gayón
  • The Influence of Genetics on Philosophy of Science: Classical Genetics and the Structuralist View of Theories; Pablo Lorenzano
  • Epi-Geneticization: Where Biological and Philosophical Thinking Meet; Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver and Dani De Waele
  • Genetics and the Ethical, Legal and Sociological Debate
  • Is DNA Revolutionizing Medicine?; Anne Fagot-Largeault
  • The Harm to be a Clone; Jean-Yves Goffi
  • Children of One’s Own: Parenthood and the Illusion of Control; Jonathan Michael Kaplan
  • Is a Transcultural Law for Human Genetics and Biotechnology Possible?; Carlos María Romeo-Casabona
  • Genetics and Society: A Different View; Juan Manuel Torres
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.