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The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society

This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate how nuanced attention to both the biological and social sciences opens up n...

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Other Authors: Meloni, Maurizio (Editor), Cromby, John (Editor), Fitzgerald, Des (Editor), Lloyd, Stephanie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Subjects:
Neurosciences
Science And Technology Studies
Social Theory
Human Genetics
Technology—sociological Aspects
Epidemiology
Social Sciences—philosophy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 17. Mechanisms of Embodiment in Religious Belief and Practice: “Bio-looping” in Candomblé Trance and Possession; Rebecca Seligman
  • Chapter 18. Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity; Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
  • Chapter 19 Developing Schizophrenia; John Cromby
  • Chapter 20. Epigenetics and the suicidal brain: reconsidering context in an emergent style of reasoning; Stephanie Lloyd and Eugene Raikhel
  • SECTION IV. Social Epidemiology
  • Chapter 21. The embodiment dynamic over the lifecourse: a case for examining cancer aetiology; Michelle Kelly-Irving & Cyrille Delpierre
  • Chapter 22. Epigenetic signatures of socioeconomic status across the lifecourse; Silvia Stringhini and Paolo Vineis
  • Chapter 23. An intergenerational perspective on social inequality in health and life opportunities: the maternal capital model; Jonathan Wells and Akanksha Marphatia
  • INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS. Introducing the New Biosocial Landscape; Meloni, Cromby, Fitzgerald, and Lloyd
  • SECTION I: History of the Biology/Society Relationship
  • Chapter 1.Models, Metaphors, Lamarckisms and the Emergence of ‘Scientific Sociology’; Snait Gissis
  • Chapter 2.The transcendence of the social: Durkheim, Weismann and the Purification of Sociology; Maurizio Meloni
  • Chapter 3. Biology, Social Science, and Population in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Chris Renwick
  • Chapter 4. The concept of plasticity in the history of the nature-nurture debate in the early 20th century; Antonine Nicoglou
  • Chapter 5. An Evolving, Evolutionary Science of Human Differences; Jonathan Marks
  • Chapter 6. Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research; Will Viney
  • Chapter 7. Histories and meanings of Epigenetics; Tatjana Buklijas
  • SECTION II. Genomics, Postgenomics, Epigenetics and Society
  • Chapter 8. Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution; Maurizio Meloni and Giuseppe Testa,
  • Chapter 9. Social & Behavioral Epigenetics: Evolving Perspectives on Nature-Nurture Interplay, Plasticity, and Inheritance; Frances Champagne
  • Chapter 10. Molecular Multicultures; Amy Hinterberger
  • Chapter 11. The First Thousand Days: Epigenetics in the Age of Global Health; Michelle Pentecost
  • Chapter 12. Genetics, epigenetics and social justice in education: learning as a complex biosocial phenomenon; Deborah Youdell
  • Chapter 13. Genetics, epigenetics and social justice in education: learning as a complex biosocial phenomenon; Sabina Leonelli
  • SECTION III. Neuroscience: brain, culture and social relations
  • Chapter 14. Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience; Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury
  • Chapter 15. On the Neurodisciplines of Culture; Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega
  • Chapter 16. Affective Neuroscience as Sociological Inquiry?; - Christian Von Scheve
  • Chapter 33. Of Rats and Women: Narratives of Motherhood in Environmental Epigenetics; Martha Kenney and Ruth Müller
  • Chapter 34. Ancestors and Identities: DNA, Genealogy, and Stories; Jessica Bardill
  • Chapter 35. Species of Biocapital, 2008 and Speciating Biocapital, 2017; Stefan Helmreich with a postcript by Nicole Labruto
  • Chapter 36. Human Tendencies; Ed Cohen
  • Chapter 37. Ten theses on the subject of biology and politics: conceptual, methodological, and biopolitical considerations; Samantha Frost
  • Chapter 24. Quantifying social influences throughout the life-course: action, structure and ‘omics’; Mike Kelly and Rachel Kelly
  • Chapter 25 Health inequalities and the interplay of socioeconomic factors and health in the life course; Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Eduwin Pakpahan
  • SECTION V. Medicine and Society
  • Chapter 26. Universal Biology, Local Society? Notes from Anthropology; Patrick Bieler, Jorg Niewohner
  • Chapter 27.Big Data and Biomedicine; Nadine Levin
  • Chapter 28. Personalised and Precision Medicine: What kind of society does it take?; Barbara Prainsack
  • Chapter 29. Emergent postgenomic bodies and their (non)scalable environments; Megan Warin and Aryn Martin
  • Chapter 30. The vitality of disease; Ayo Wahlberg
  • Chapter 31. Bioethnography: A How-To Guide for the Twenty-First Century; Liz Roberts and Camilo Sanz
  • SECTION VI.Contested Sites/Future Perspectives
  • Chapter 32. The Postgenomic Politics of Race; Catherine Bliss

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