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Informationen zum Autor Professor Sir Michael Rutter trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, and in child development at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. He was appointed to the first UK Chair in Child Psychiatry in 1973 and since his retirement in 1998, he has held a research chair in Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London. He has authored or edited some forty books, published over four hundred scientific papers, and has received numerous international awards and honors. Sir Michael is a member of the US Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and a foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the US National Academy of Education. He received a CBE in 1985 and was knighted in 1992. He was Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust from 1999 to 2004 and continues as a trustee of several foundations, including the Nuffield Foundation. Klappentext In recent years, the subject of genes and their influence on human behavior has become increasingly controversial as concerns about the racist use of genetics, discriminatory eugenics, and neurogenetic determinism have grown. In this major new book, eminent scientist Professor Sir Michael Rutter gets behind the hype to provide a balanced and authoritative overview of the genetic revolution and its implications for understanding human behavior. Rutter sets out in layman's terms what genetic science has discovered to date, explaining exactly what genes do, how much is nature and how much is nurture. He argues that nature and nurture are not truly separate, giving powerful illustrations of how the two interact to determine our behavior. He also considers the implications of genetic findings for policy and practice. This thought-provoking account will inform public debate about the implications of the Human Genome Project and, more broadly, the field of genetic science. Zusammenfassung In this major new book! eminent scientist Professor Sir Michael Rutter gets behind the hype of the behavioral genetics debate to provide a balanced and authoritative overview of the genetic revolution and its implications for understanding human behavior. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: Why is the topic of genes and behavior controversial?. Chapter 2: Concepts of behavior and of mental disorder. Chapter 3: Environmentally mediated risks. Chapter 4: Patterns of inheritance. Chapter 5: How much is nature and how much nurture?. Chapter 6: The heritability of different mental disorders and traitsChapter 7: Finding and understanding specific susceptibility genes. Chapter 8: What genes do. Chapter 9: Nature-nurture interplay and causal pathways from genes to psychopathology. Chapter 10: What environments do to genes. Chapter 11: Conclusions. Complete reference list. Glossary. Index ...
