Policy and Ethical Implications of Biosocial Research.

Udry, J. Richard

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ERIC Number: EJ540161

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Publication Date: 1995

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Policy and Ethical Implications of Biosocial Research.

Udry, J. Richard

Population Research and Policy Review, v14 n3 p347-57 Sep 1995

Social scientists are often concerned that research on biological causes of behavior will encourage biologically-based public policy. By simultaneously examining both social and biological causes of behavior, biosocial research models prevent simplistic biological thinking. Concludes that biosocial models clarify ethical problems rather than create them. (PVD)

Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Heredity, Nature Nurture Controversy, Policy Formation, Research, Social Influences, Social Sciences

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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