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  title info:
    title: Behaving
    sub title: what's genetic, what's not, and why should we care?
  name:
    name part: Schaffner, Kenneth F.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Behaving presents an overview of the recent history and methodology of behavioral genetics and psychiatric genetics, informed by a philosophical perspective. Kenneth F. Schaffner addresses a wide range of issues, including genetic reductionism and determinism, "free will" and quantitative and molecular genetics. The latter covers newer genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that have produced a paradigm shift in the subject, and generated the problem of "missing heritability." Schaffner also presents cases involving pro and con arguments for genetic testing for IQ and for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Schaffner examines the nature-nurture controversy and Developmental Systems Theory using C. elegans or "worm" studies as a test case, concluding that genes are special and provide powerful tools, including "deep homology," for investigating behavior. He offers a novel account of biological knowledge emphasizing the importance of models, mechanisms, pathways and networks, which clarifies how partial reductions provide explanations of traits and disorders. The book also includes examinations of personality genetics and of schizophrenia and its etiology, alongside interviews with prominent researchers in the area, and discusses debates about psychosis that led to changes in the DSM-5 in 2013. Schaffner concludes by discussing additional philosophical implications of the genetic analyses in the book, some major worries about "free will," and arguments pro and con about why genes and DNA are so special. Though genes are special, newer perspectives presented in this book will be needed for progress in behavioral genetics- perspectives that situate genes in complex multilevel prototypic pathways and networks. With a mix of optimism and pessimism about the state of the field and the subject, Schaffner's book will be of interest to scholars in the history and philosophy of science, medicine and psychiatry.
  table of contents: Behaving: its nature and nurture (part 1) -- Behaving: its nature and nurture (part 2) -- Genes, behavior, and the developmentalist challenge: one process, indivisible -- What's a worm got to do with it? model organisms and deep homology -- Reduction: the cheshire cat problem and a return to roots -- Human behavioral genetics: personality studies, depression, gene-environment interplay, and the revolutionary results of GWAS.
  note: Kenneth F. Schaffner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Behavior genetics
  subject:
    topic: Nature and nurture
  subject:
    topic: Genetics, Behavioral
  classification: QH457 .S33 2016
  classification: 591.5
  classification: QU 450
  identifier: 9780195171402 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0195171403 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2015027801
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150811
    record change date: 20170926141732.0
    record identifier: in00003739927