Madness and Genetic Determinism Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?
This book explores the history of genetic determinist theories of mental illness, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing right up to the present day. A century of research in the field of psychiatric genetics, from family studies to twin studi
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Madness and Genetic Determinism
Patrick D. Hahn
Madness and Genetic Determinism Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?
Patrick D. Hahn Biology Loyola University Maryland Baltimore, MD, USA
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Preface
On the morning of Saturday 28 March 2016, Karina Morales-Rodriguez and Marta Martinez were shot dead outside the MoneyTree retail financial services provider at the corner of South First and East Walnut Streets of Yakima, Washington, where they both worked.1 Later that day agents of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force arrested Manuel Enrique Verduzco without incident at the home of his parents. He was charged with aggravated first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty. On 19 December 2017, the Yakima Herald reported that Verduzco’s lawyers requested that experts be allowed to testify that their client inherited a tendency toward schizophrenia from his father’s side of the family.2 Are people suffering from schizophrenia or any other mental illness really “born that way”? What does it even mean to say that mental illness is caused by genes? These are the questions we will be considering here. How we view these conditions—as problems with living, or as brain disorders, probably inherited—determines how society deals with persons suffering from them. For the single year 2013, total spending on mental health interventions in the United States exceeded $200 billion.3 There are literally trillions of
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