Summary: This episode we return to our ongoing series on genetic research and sociology inspired by our Summer 2009 feature article [1] on the topic (take a listen to our interview with Thomas Bouchard [2] to hear our first discussion). This time we engage with a slightly different “socio-cultural” perspective and invited sociologist Allan Horwitz [3] to give us his take on how this new science of the gene may medicalize new syndromes. Horwitz also talks about his new controversial book The Loss of Sadness [4], an examination of the medicalization of depression. Also in this episode, Jeremy Minyard [5] shares a discovery on corporate deviance and legitimacy [6]. Download episode #26 now! [7] [1] http://contexts.org/articles/summer-2009/sociology-and-the-gene/ [2] http://thesocietypages.org/podcast/2009/11/17/genes-behavior-and-science/ [3] http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~avhorw/ [4] http://www.amazon.com/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive/dp/0195313046 [5] http://www.soc.umn.edu/people/gradprofile.php?UID=minya003 [6] http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/publications/ASQ/abs062009.html [7] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=43847.mp3
