Full Description
Biosocial MattersTwenty-First Century features a collection of readings from scholars on the vanguard of a reframing of biology/society debates within the sociological disciplines.Brings together voices who are contributing to a reframing of the biology/sociology debate within sociology and sister disciplines such as anthropology, history, and philosophyGathers theoretical and historically-oriented contributions to gain an understanding of the current renegotiation of the biological/social boundariesPresents in-depth analyses of two frontiers of ongoing biology/sociology debates: epigenetics and neuroscienceReveals how a new biosocial terrain can revitalize both sociology and the biological imagination
Contents
Editorial introduction1. The biosocial: sociological themes and issues (Maurizio Meloni, Simon Williams and Paul Martin)Rise of the new biology: implications for the social sciences2. Thinking about biology and culture: can the natural and human sciences be integrated? (Evelyn Fox Keller)3. Cultural epigenetics (Eva Jablonka)4. From boundary-work to boundary object: how biology left and re-entered the social sciences (Maurizio Meloni)5. The social as signal in the body of chromatin (Hannah Landecker)Thinking biosocially: promises, problems, prospects6. Unstable bodies: biosocial perspectives on human variation (Gisli Palsson)7. The turn to biology (Tim Newton)8. Organizing the organism: a re-casting of the bio-social interface for our times (Steve Fuller)9. New bottles for new wine: Julian Huxley, biology and sociology in Britain (Chris Renwick)Biosocial challenges and opportunities: epigenetics and neuroscience10. Social epigenetics: a science of social science? (Emma Chung, John Cromby, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Cristina Tufarelli)11. Epistemic modesty, ostentatiousness and the uncertainties of epigenetics: on the knowledge machinery of (social) science (Martyn Pickersgill)12. The epigenomic self in personalized medicine: between responsibility and empowerment (Luca Chiapperino and Giuseppe Testa)13. Living well in the Neuropolis (Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh)14. The nature of structure: a biosocial approach (John Bone)15. The challenges of new biopsychosocialities: hearing voices, trauma, epigenetics and mediated perception (Lisa Blackman)Notes on contributorsIndex
