Screams: An Essay on Human Violence

by Dan Agin

A provocative essay on anti-liberalism and human violence. Is there such a thing as group madness? What does history tell us about human violence? What are the linkages between the horrors of the past and the horrors of the present? Are the roots of violence to be found in genes or in the environment? Warning: This essay contains explicit descriptions of human violence. NOT FOR ANYONE OFFENDED BY SUCH DESCRIPTIONS. Dan Agin's most recent book is FOOLS AND FRAUDS: HOW MODERN PSYCHIATRY FUMBLED THE ORIGINS OF MENTAL ILLNESS (Spectrum Focus, 2011). He is also the author of AN EVIL AGE: AN ESSAY ON MARRIAGE AND SEX IN THE VICTORIAN ERA (Spectrum Focus, 2012); BLACK AND WHITE IN AMERICA (Spectrum Focus. 2010); HUMAN SEXUALITY AND CHARLES DARWIN (Spectrum Focus, 2011); MORE THAN GENES: WHAT SCIENCE CAN TELL US ABOUT TOXIC CHEMICALS, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE RISK TO OUR CHILDREN (Oxford University Press. 2010), and the author of JUNK SCIENCE: HOW POLITICIANS, CORPORATIONS, AND OTHER HUCKSTERS BETRAY US (St. Martin´s Press/Thomas Dunne Books. 2006). He is Emeritus Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago. He can be reached at dagin@uchicago.edu

23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 21, 2011