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Behavioural phenotypes in disability research: historical perspectives.

Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR - 1 Jun 2006

Goodey C F

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Western medicine has a long history of accounting for behaviour by reducing the body to ultimate explanatory entities. In pre-modern medicine these were invisible "animal spirits" circulating the body. In modern medicine, they are "genes". Both raise questions. The psychological phenotype is defined by human consensus, varying according to time and place, while the genotype's DNA exists in a realm of material...

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PMID: 16672033
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00795.x

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