Backdoor to eugenics / Troy Duster.

New York : Routledge, 2003.

xvi, 240 pages ; 24 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-233) and index.

Inherited genetic disorders and inherited social orders -- The prism of heritability and the sociology of knowledge: what questions? Whose questions? -- The genetic screening of "target" populations -- Dilemmas of a "general" genetic disorder control policy -- Neutrality and ideology in genetic disorder control -- The increasing appropriation of genetic explanations -- Eugenics by the back door -- Human genetics, evolutionary theory, and social stratification -- Afterword: The new and emerging relationship between behavioral and molecular genetics