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...
| Publicado en: | Social Alternatives Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 14 - 22 |
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Social Alternatives
2008 Fourth Quarter
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| Sumario: | 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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