Berryessa Colleen M, Martinez-Martin Nicole A, Allyse Megan A
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Aggress Violent Behav. 2013 Nov;18(6). doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2013.07.011.
Scientific study of genetic contributions to chronic antisocial behavior has stemmed from many lines of research in recent years. Genetic research involving twin, family, and adoption studies have traditionally been used to compare the health and behavior outcomes of individuals who share the same environment or hereditary lineage; several of these studies have concluded that heredity plays some role in the formation of chronic antisocial behavior, including various forms of aggression and chronic norm-defiance. However, the ethical, social, and legal environment surrounding research on the biological contributions to antisocial behavior in the United States is contentious. Although there has been some discussion in the last few decades regarding the ethical, social, and legal concerns around this type of research within academic and policy circles, analysis and discussion of these concerns rarely appear together. This paper explores the main themes that interact to form the basis of much of the resistance to positing biological contributions to antisocial behavior.
近年来,对慢性反社会行为的遗传因素贡献的科学研究源于多条研究路线。涉及双胞胎、家庭和收养研究的遗传研究传统上被用于比较处于相同环境或遗传谱系的个体的健康和行为结果;其中一些研究得出结论,遗传在慢性反社会行为的形成中发挥了一定作用,包括各种形式的攻击行为和长期违反规范行为。然而,在美国,围绕反社会行为生物学贡献研究的伦理、社会和法律环境存在争议。尽管在过去几十年里,学术界和政策界对这类研究的伦理、社会和法律问题进行了一些讨论,但对这些问题的分析和讨论很少同时出现。本文探讨了相互作用形成对反社会行为生物学贡献假设存在诸多抵制的基础的主要主题。