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Nature or Nurture as a complex interplay: the debate over the depression gene
By Dena T. Smith In the last several decades, the field of medicine has become increasingly dominated by biological thinking. Psychiatry, a sub-field aimed at treating mental illness is largely focused...
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Creating or Identifying Mental Illness: what American psychiatric definitions...
The New York Times Sunday Magazine featured an article (a preview of a book) by Ethan Watters about the globalization of American concepts of mental illness (linked below). In short, along with our...
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Genes cannot be bought, but their testing certainly can be…
The recent uptick in genetic testing for a range of illnesses has prompted great debate in the medical community about how reliable and useful the testing is, as well as discussion among social...
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The Potential of Epigenetics for Sociology
A careful understanding of epigenetic mechanisms allows sociologists to include a new biological perspective into research designs – when it is incorporated carefully and not used casually or blindly...
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