"Psychiatric Genetics: Styles of Thought in Psychiatric Genetics offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which promissory science copes with the increasing scale and expectations of genomic research. Psychiatric genetics has emerged from several distinct styles of scientifi…
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Entering 'Big Biology'; Psychiatric genetics as 'Big Biology'; Styles of reasoning; Networks of production; Argument and methods; Notes; References; Cha…
Psychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technolo…