Born Gay - Couverture souple

Glenn, Wilson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720613094 ISBN 13 : 9780720613094

Editeur : Peter Owen, 2008

Synopsis

Born Gay? A key study in the psychobiology of sexual orientation and its true causes.Since the ground-breaking work of Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer in the early 1990s, a tremendous amount of new research has been carried out by scientists who now understand a great deal more about the biology of sexual attraction. In this book the authors show that attempts to find a sociological cause for homosexuality have ... Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

My first reaction to this book was, oh dear, not another attempt to investigate the causes of homosexuality. Gay people have been treated as medical curiosities for 200 years. We've been studied, probed and tested long enough. Why don't scientists ever examine what makes people straight? But on reading Born Gay I discovered a surprisingly interesting book. The authors, Glenn Wilson and Qazi Rahman, present masses of fascinating evidence from dozens of studies which, they conclude, show that sexual orientation is overwhelmingly innate. Social or environmental factors have little or no influence. Blaming parents and childhood upbringing is mistaken and unfair. The idea that people become gay by seduction or conscious choice is not supported by scientific evidence, they say. . . Peter Tatchell, London Evening Standard --Peter Tatchell, Evening Standard

Is there a gay gene based on differences in the shape of the brain or are the conservatives right when they claim that what they deem abhorrent, skewed behaviour is a matter of conditioning that can be corrected? Psychiatrist Wilson and psychologist Rahman reckon neither is strictly correct, placing the truth somewhere in between in this thought provoking and often funny study, which reveals that gay men have larger penises. The Herald (Glasgow) --The Herald

--Richard and Judy

Biographie de l'auteur :

Glenn Wilson is one of the most distingushed commentators on psychology, a regular on radio and TV; Qazi Rahman is an academic at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He studies the biology of sexual orientation and the implications for mental health

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0720613094
• ISBN 13: 9780720613094
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 176