[PDF] Mentalism, disability rights and modern eugenics in a ‘brave new world’ | Semantic Scholar

This paper reviews the social science literature that considers the social effects of the application of molecular genetics and genetic testing in connection with Mendelian conditions and argues that anthropologists must go farther and respond to the challenge posed by current moves toward the implementation of genetic profiling and testing for susceptibility genes.

There is compelling evidence that the familial aggregation of bipolar disorder and severe unipolar depression is at least partly due to genetic factors, but the evidence concerning ‘non-endogenous' depression is less clear, and family environment probably plays a stronger role.