Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

by Nicole C. Nelson

Book Overview

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today--but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves that animal experiments are a good way of producing knowledge about the genetics of human behavior? In Model Behavior, Nicole C. Nelson takes us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654608X
• ISBN13: 9780226546087
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"