Epigenetics: An Emerging Challenge to Genetic Determinism in Studies of Mental Health and Illness.

The article examines the manner in which genetic determinism is being challenged within epigenetics as related to the fields of mental health and mental illness. Genetic determinism is defined as the belief that genes determine physical and behavioral phenotypes. Topics of discussion include the fie...

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Publicado en:Social Alternatives Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 14 - 22
Autor principal: CANNING, CHRISTOPHER
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Social Alternatives 2008 Fourth Quarter
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        affil: Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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        Genetic determinism
        Mental health
        Pathological psychology
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        Psychiatric research
        Epigenesis
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          Genetic determinism
          Mental health
          Pathological psychology
          Social sciences
          Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)
          Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
          Psychiatric research
          Epigenesis
      ab: The article examines the manner in which genetic determinism is being challenged within epigenetics as related to the fields of mental health and mental illness. Genetic determinism is defined as the belief that genes determine physical and behavioral phenotypes. Topics of discussion include the field of sociology becoming cautious of deterministic and biological explanations for mental health and mental illness and the hegemonic belief that DNA holds all the information for mental illness-related phenotypic traits.
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