Title:
Davenport's dream : 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Jan A. Witkowski, John R. Inglis.
Publication Information:
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780879697563
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index.
Contents:
Preface / Jan A. Witkowski and John R. Inglis -- Foreword / Matt Ridley -- Illustrations -- Genes and politics / James D. Watson -- Charles Benedict Davenport, 1866-1944 / Jan A. Witkowski -- The eugenic world of Charles Benedict Davenport / Elof A. Carlson -- Davenport's dream / Maynard V. Olson -- Genetic determinism and evolutionary ethics : a mitochondrial perspective / Douglas C. Wallace -- Psychiatric genetics in an era of relative enlightenment / Daniel R. Weinberger and David Goldman -- Genes in mind? / Lindsey Kent and Simon Baron-Cohen -- Davenport and heredity counseling / Philip R. Reilly -- Genetics and equality / Ronald Dworkin -- Genetics and human nature / Lewis Wolpert -- A reprint of Heredity in relation to eugenics / Charles Benedict Davenport (published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1911).