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The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes /

Title
The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes / Jay Joseph.
Author
Joseph, Jay.
Publication
New York : Algora Pub., c2006.

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Description
x, 324 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Genetic psychology
  • Mental illness > Genetic aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-308) and indexes.
Contents
The twin method: science or pseudoscience? -- ADHD genetic research -- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- A generation misinformed: psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research -- Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis: a primary scource for misunderstanding the genetics of schizophrenia -- Autism and genetics: much ado about very little -- The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- The twin method's Achilles' heel: a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature -- Bipolar disorder and genetics -- Genotype or genohype? the fruitless search for genes in psychiatry.
ISBN
  • 0875864104 (trade paper : alk. paper)
  • 0875864112 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 0875864120 (ebook)
LCCN
2005025161
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library