Biosocial Surveys Book

Introduction   James W. Vaupel   Kenneth W. Wachter   Maxine Weinstein     1
What We've Learned so Far
Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Surveys   Kaare Christensen   Lise Bathum   Lene Christiansen     15
Whitehall II and ELSA: Integrating Epidemiological and Psychobiological Approaches to the Assessment of Biological Indicators   Michael Marmot   Andrew Steptoe     42
The Taiwan Biomarker Project   Ming-Cheng Chang   Dana A. Glei   Noreen Goldman   Maxine Weinstein     60
Elastic Powers: The Integration of Biomarkers into the Health and Retirement Study   David Weir     78
An Overview of Biomarker Research from Community and Population-Based Studies on Aging   Jennifer R. Harris   Tara L. Gruenewald   Teresa Seeman     96
The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for the Population Study of Biomarkers   Robert B. Wallace     136
Comments on Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators in Social Science Surveys   Duncan Thomas   Elizabeth Frankenberg     149
Biomarkers in Social Science Research on Health and Aging: A Review of Theory and Practice   Douglas C. Ewbank     156
The Potential and Pitfalls ofGenetic Information
Are Genes Good Markers of Biological Traits?   Mary Jane West-Eberhard     175
Genetic Markers in Social Science Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls   George P. Vogler   Gerald E. McClearn     194
Comments on the Utility of Social Science Surveys for the Discovery and Validation of Genes Influencing Complex Traits   Harald H.H. Goring     208
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
New Ways of Collecting, Applying, and Thinking About Data
Minimally Invasive and Innovative Methods for Biomeasure Collection in Population-Based Research   Stacy Tessler Lindau   Thomas W. McDade     251
Nutrigenomics   John Milner   Elaine B. Trujillo   Christine M. Kaefer   Sharon Ross     278
Genoeconomics   Daniel J. Benjamin   Christopher F. Chabris   Edward L. Glaeser   Vilmundur Gudnason   Tamara B. Harris   David I. Laibson   Lenore J. Launer   Shaun Purcell     304
Mendelian Randomization: Genetic Variants as Instruments for Strengthening Causal Inference in Observational Studies   George Davey Smith   Shah Ebrahim      336
Multilevel Investigations: Conceptual Mappings and Perspectives   John T. Cacioppo   Gary G. Berntson   Ronald A. Thisted     367
Genomics and Beyond: Improving Understanding and Analysis of Human (Social, Economic, and Demographic) Behavior   John Hobcraft     381
Biographical Sketches of Contributors     401