Biosocial Surveys

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Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys, Maxine Weinstein, James W. Vaupel, and Kenneth W. Wachter, Editors, National Research Council
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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Introduction--James W. Vaupel, Kenneth W. Wachter, and Maxine Weinstein	1-12	(skim)
Part I: What We've Learned So Far	13-14	(skim)
1 Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Surveys--Kaare Christensen, Lise Bathum, and Lene Christiansen	15-41	(skim)
2 Whitehall II and ELSA: Integrating Epidemiological and Psychobiological Approaches to the Assessment of Biological Indicators--Michael Marmot and Andrew Steptoe	42-59	(skim)
3 The Taiwan Biomarker Project--Ming-Cheng Chang, Dana A. Glei, Noreen Goldman, and Maxine Weinstein	60-77	(skim)
4 Elastic Powers: The Integration of Biomarkers into the Health and Retirement Study--David Weir	78-95	(skim)
5 An Overview of Biomarker Research from Community and Population-Based Studies on Aging--Jennifer R. Harris, Tara L. Gruenewald, and Teresa Seeman	96-135	(skim)
6 The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for the Population Study of Biomarkers--Robert B. Wallace	136-148	(skim)
7 Comments on Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators in Social Science Surveys--Duncan Thomas and Elizabeth Frankenberg	149-155	(skim)
8 Biomarkers in Social Science Research on Health and Aging: A Review of Theory and Practice--Douglas C. Ewbank	156-172	(skim)
Part II: The Potential and Pitfalls of Genetic Information	173-174	(skim)
9 Are Genes Good Markers of Biological Traits?--Mary Jane West-Eberhard	175-193	(skim)
10 Genetic Markers in Social Science Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls--George P. Vogler and Gerald E. McClearn	194-207	(skim)
11 Comments on the Utility of Social Science Surveys for the Discovery and Validation of Genes Influencing Complex Traits--Harald H.H. Göring	208-230	(skim)
12 Overview Thoughts on Genetics: Walking the Line Between Denial and Dreamland, or Genes Are Involved in Everything, But Not Everything Is "Genetic"--Kenneth M. Weiss	231-248	(skim)
Part III: New Ways of Collecting, Applying, and Thinking About Data	249-250	(skim)
13 Minimally Invasive and Innovative Methods for Biomeasure Collection in Population-Based Research--Stacy Tessler Lindau and Thomas W. McDade	251-277	(skim)
14 Nutrigenomics--John Milner, Elaine B. Trujillo, Christine M. Kaefer, and Sharon Ross	278-303	(skim)
15 Genoeconomics--Daniel J. Benjamin, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward L. Glaeser, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, David I. Laibson, Lenore J. Launer, and Shaun Purcell	304-335	(skim)
16 Mendelian Randomization: Genetic Variants as Instruments for Strengthening Causal Inference in Observational Studies--George Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim	336-366	(skim)
17 Multilevel Investigations: Conceptual Mappings and Perspectives--John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, and Ronald A. Thisted	367-380	(skim)
18 Genomics and Beyond: Improving Understanding and Analysis of Human (Social, Economic, and Demographic) Behavior--John Hobcraft	381-400	(skim)
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Contributors	401-414	(skim)

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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research? and asks these questions: What have the social sciences, especially demography, learned from those efforts and the greater interdisciplinary communication that has resulted from them? Which biological or genetic information has proven most useful to researchers? How can better models be developed to help integrate biological and social science information in ways that can broaden scientific understanding? This volume contains a collection of 17 papers by distinguished experts in demography, biology, economics, epidemiology, and survey methodology. It is an invaluable sourcebook for social and behavioral science researchers who are working with biosocial data.

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