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A review essay on a book by Troy Duster, Backdoor to Eugenics (New York & London: Routledge, 1990 [see listing in IRPS No. 65]). Examining eugenics in the 1990s, Duster finds that genetic screening is initially framed in voluntaristic, public health, community-participation-based, & seemingly innocuous terms. Duster focuses on current concrete practices of genetic intervention, & argues that a social construction of the nature of heritability is created at the meeting point of the current constructions of inherited genetic disorders & inherited social orders. An organizing theme of the book is how contemporary social concerns, rather than the scientific status of genetics, shape intervention in human heredity. A warning of the dangers of genetic intervention, Duster's book delineates the inherent contradictions in constructing a genetic-disorder-control policy, & makes a strong argument about the power of organizations. 8 References. W. Howard

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE. Social Worlds in the Reproductive Arena -- CHAPTER ONE. Framing the American Reproductive Sciences -- CHAPTER TWO. Situating the Reproductive Sciences -- PART TWO. The Making of the Reproductive Sciences -- CHAPTER THREE. Forming the Discipline -- CHAPTER FOUR. Seizing the Means of Studying Reproduction -- PART THREE. Coalescing the Enterprise -- CHAPTER FIVE. Coalescing the Discipline -- CHAPTER SIX. Negotiating the Contraceptive Quid pro Quo -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Funding the Reproductive Sciences -- PART FOUR. Disciplining Reproduction in Modernity -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Illegitimate Science -- CHAPTER NINE. Disciplining Reproduction in Modernity -- APPENDIX ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHIC AND METHODOLOGICAL NOTE -- APPENDIX TWO: ON THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH IN PROBLEMS OF SEX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

This article introduces the use of Situational Analysis methods with extant »visual discourse« materials found in a particular situation of inquiry. It describes the pressing need to include such analyses in social science research as imagery increasingly pervades and becomes constitutive of daily life. The initial steps are: deciding, locating, collecting, and tracking the extant visual discourse materials. Next, the analyst enters, examines, and begins memoing those materials, including both one's own impressions and writing specific kinds of guided memos. Next is making the four kinds of maps involved in doing SA research: »situational«, »relational«, »social worlds/arenas« and »positional maps« of these visual discourse materials. The final step is highlighting the most interesting and previously unstudied features of those materials in the research report.