The Palgrave handbook of biology and society. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd, editors.
• Other Names: Meloni, Maurizio, 1971-; Cromby, John, 1961-; Fitzgerald, Des; Lloyd, Stephanie
• Contents: 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 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 -- 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 -- 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301.243; Social sciences; Sociobiology; Biology -- Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Biology -- Social aspects; Sociobiology; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Medical -- Genetics; Medical -- Neuroscience; Medical -- Epidemiology; Social theory; Medical genetics; Neurosciences; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Technology—Sociological aspects; Human genetics; Neurosciences; Epidemiology; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137528797; 1137528796
• Related ISBNs: 9781137528780; 1137528788
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2017).
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