Agency versus structure: Genetics, group membership, and a new twist on an old debate

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 632-635

  Angel, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Ethnicity; Eugenics; Genetics; Race

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHICS; ETHNICITY; GENETICS; GENOME; RACE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EUGENICS; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POPULATION GROUPS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 80051915090     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.039     Document Type: Article

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