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Peer reviewedSegal, Elizabeth A.; Kilty, Keith M. – Race, Gender & Class, 1998
Addresses two areas where science has been and still is used to justify policies and attitudes that are discriminatory and oppressive: homosexuality and alcoholism. This article analyzes the debate over whether these correlations are biologically or socially determined. Of particular concern is the potential impact of biological determinism on the…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitudes, Biodiversity, Biological Influences
