ISBN:
9781137528797
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (926 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Meloni, Maurizio The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Biology-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introducing the New Biosocial Landscape -- Overview of the Chapters -- Outline of the Handbook -- References -- Part I: History of the Biology/Society Relationship -- 2: Models, Metaphors, Lamarckisms and the Emergence of 'Scientific Sociology' -- Lamarck and Lamarckisms2 -- Spencer-Psychology, Biology, Sociology3 -- Durkheim: Models, Metaphors and Transfers in the First Two Phases of His Sociological Writings6 -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Transcendence of the Social: Durkheim, Weismann and the Purification of Sociology -- Introduction: Weismann and the Possibility of the Social -- The Complicity of the Social and the Biological Before the Big Dichotomy -- Social Theory and Philosophy -- Heredity Before Modern (Hard) Heredity in Medical Writings1 -- The Making of Hard Heredity in the Late Nineteenth Century -- August Weismann -- Weismann, Weismannism and a Legacy to Re-evaluate -- Durkheim as a Weismannian -- Reading Durkheim's Weismann -- Division of Labour in Society (DL, 1893) -- The Rules of Sociological Method (R, 1895) -- Suicide (S, 1897) -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Biology, Social Science, and Population in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain -- Nineteenth-Century Origins -- Biosocial Science and Population During the Early Twentieth Century -- Population, Politics, and Society -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Concept of Plasticity in the History of the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Early Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- The Origin of the Nature-Nurture Opposition in Biology -- Shakespeare's Influence on Galton -- Darwin's Influence on Galton -- From Literature to Biometry -- The Emergence of Genetics and the Redefinition of the Nature-Nurture Debate -- How to Understand Inheritance with Genetics?
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Johannsen's Contribution to the Nature-Nurture Debate: Genes Versus Environment -- Woltereck Offers Interplay Between Nature and Nurture: The "Reaktionsnorm" -- Nilsson-Ehle's Concept of Plasticity in Genetics -- "Plasticity": What Interplay Between Nature and Nurture? -- Plasticity in Psychology and the Origins of the Concept in the Nature-Nurture Debate -- The Concept of Plasticity Within the Theory of Organic Selection -- Hogben's Conceptual Clarifications Concerning the Nature/Nurture Interplay -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: An Evolving, Evolutionary Science of Human Differences -- Introduction -- European Roots of Anthropology -- American Anthropology -- The Science of Race -- Addressing the Hereditarian Fallacy -- Human Diversity as a Twenty-First-Century Moral Science -- Literature Cited -- 7: Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research -- Born into Experiment -- Experimental Bodies -- Making Up Twins, Fast and Slow -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 8: Histories and Meanings of Epigenetics -- An Alternative History of Heredity? -- 1975 and the Origins of Epigenetics -- Of Famines and Ancestors: How Epigenetics Became Famous -- Bibliography -- Part II: Genomics, Postgenomics, Epigenetics and Society -- 9: Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution -- Succeeding by Blurring: The Irresistible Rise of Molecular Epigenetics -- An Epistemology of the Imprecise -- Sources and Boundaries of Epigenetics -- Pathway 1: Epigenetic Vistas Across Controversies, Hypes and Sociotechnical Imaginaries -- Controversial Knowledge -- Cycles of Hypes and Expectations from the Genome to the Epigenome and Back -- Epigenetic Imaginaries -- Pathway 2: Epigenetics Between Fact and Concern -- Digitizing the Environment: Plasticity, Responsibility and Purity -- Epigenetics in Social Policy and Public Health Discourses
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Pathway 3: Paradoxes of Somatic Materialism -- Conclusions -- References -- 10: Social and Behavioral Epigenetics: Evolving Perspectives on Nature-Nurture Interplay, Plasticity, and Inheritance -- Introduction -- A Primer of Modern Epigenetics -- Mothering the Epigenome -- Psychosocial Stress and Epigenetic Plasticity -- Revisiting the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics -- Epigenetics and the Gene -- Future Directions in Social and Behavioral Epigenetics -- References -- 11: Molecular Multicultures -- Heredity and Multiculture in the Post-genomic Era -- Heredity Redux: Population and Its Discontents -- Heredity and Heritage in Context: Governing Populations in the 'New World' -- Conclusion: Vital Legacies and the Futures of Genomic Difference -- Bibliography -- 12: The First Thousand Days: Epigenetics in the Age of Global Health -- The First Thousand Days: Epigenetics and Perinatal Nutrition Policy -- Studying the First Thousand Days: The South African Example -- DOHaD and NCDs: Shifting Categories of Disease in South African Policy Discourse -- Practical Implications for Provincial Policy -- The Clinic as Mediating Site -- The Clinic as Catalogue -- Theory from the Waiting Room -- Epigenetics and the Everyday -- Postgenomics and Global Health -- DOHaD Geographies -- The Global (Re)Turn to the Maternal: Economic Precepts and Concepts of 'Life' -- Humanitarian Logic: The Travelling Technology of Mother and Child -- Anticipatory Global Health -- Conclusion -- References -- 13: Genetics, Epigenetics and Social Justice in Education: Learning as a Complex Biosocial Phenomenon -- Introduction -- Socially Just Education: Educational Outcomes, Everyday Practice and Learning -- Nature Versus Nurture in Education: Nature vs Institution, Institution vs Nurture (aka the Family) -- Biosocial Education -- Intra-actions
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Reading Everyday Life in School Biosocially -- Conclusion -- References -- 14: Assembling Biomedical Big Data -- Introduction -- Model Organism Databases and the Incorporation of Human Data -- Issue 1: Data -- Issue 2: Meta-Data -- Issue 3: Materials -- Issue 4: Terminology -- Conclusion: Big Data Integration and Diverging Research Cultures in Biomedicine -- References -- Part III: Neuroscience: Brain, Culture and Social Relations -- 15: Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience -- Critical Neuroscience: Towards an Undisciplined Ethos for Critique -- Assemblage: The Thickening of Brain-Based Phenomena -- How Does the Social Get Under the Skin? -- Re-invoking the Social in Studies of Neuroscience -- Structural Pathologies in Science and Society -- Whose Norms? Expertise, Participation and Contestation -- What Difference Can Critique Make to Neuroscience? -- Conclusion -- References -- 16: On the Neurodisciplines of Culture -- A Cluster of Disciplines -- Neuroimaging Culture -- And Cultural Diversity? -- Culture as Brain Activity -- Getting Rid of Culture -- References -- 17: Affective Neuroscience as Sociological Inquiry? -- Introduction -- The Sociology of Emotion and the Body -- The Generation of Affect and Emotion -- Affect -- Emotion -- Decision-Making -- Social Interaction -- From the Sociology of Emotion to Broader Biosocial Matters -- References -- 18: "Bio-looping" and the Psychophysiological in Religious Belief and Practice: Mechanisms of Embodiment in Candomblé Trance and Possession -- Introduction -- Trance and Possession in Candomblé -- Embodiment and Bio-looping -- Learning, Motivation, and Capacity -- Human Biology, Psychophysiology, and the Mechanics of Embodiment -- Psychophysiology of Mediumship -- Conclusion -- References Cited -- 19: Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience Beyond Interdisciplinarity -- Introduction
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Why the Neurosciences? -- Three Modes of Neuro-engagement -- Critique6 -- Ebullience -- Interaction -- The Regime of the Inter- -- Experimental Entanglements -- Experiment: Entangled -- Entanglement: Experimentalized -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 20: Developing Schizophrenia -- Introduction -- Initial Development -- Current Status -- Possible Futures -- Summary -- References -- 21: Epigenetics and the Suicidal Brain: Reconsidering Context in an Emergent Style of Reasoning -- Epigenetics and Its Styles of Reasoning -- The Suicidal Brain and the Molecularization of Context -- The Politics of Epigenetics and the Case of Aboriginal Suicide in Canada -- Concluding Thoughts: Suicide, Epigenetics and the Social Sciences -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Social Epidemiology -- 22: The Embodiment Dynamic over the Life Course: A Case for Examining Cancer Aetiology -- The Concept of Embodiment in Social Epidemiology -- Background on Embodiment -- Embodiment, the Environment and Social Facts -- Embodiment and Health -- Biological Mechanisms -- Mechanisms of Exogenous Origin -- Mechanisms of Endogenous Origin -- Links Between Mechanisms of Exogenous and Endogenous Origin -- Embodiment, Life Course and Cancer -- Why Cancer? -- Stress and Cancer: The All-cancer Immune System Model -- Early-Life Stress and Cancer: Life-course Evidence -- Conclusions and Future Research -- References -- 23: Epigenetic Signatures of Socioeconomic Status Across the Lifecourse -- Why Epigenetics Is Useful in Investigating the Effect of Socioeconomic Status -- A Conceptual Framework -- Duration of Methylation Changes -- The Mediation Role of Epigenetic Changes -- The Evidence on SES and DNA Methylation -- The Epigenetic Clock and Age Acceleration -- Policy Implications -- Conclusions -- References
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24: An Inter-generational Perspective on Social Inequality in Health and Life Opportunities: The Maternal Capital Model
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