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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

05.03.2018

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XV, 22 illus., 4 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen

Herausgeber

Maurizio Meloni + weitere

Verlag

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Seitenzahl

941

Maße (L/B/H)

24,1/16/5,7 cm

Gewicht

1612 g

Auflage

1st ed. 2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-137-52878-0

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“This handbook attempts to bridge the traditional gap between social sciences and biological sciences, serving as a comprehensive overview that incorporates both. … This handbook is highly recommended for academic libraries.” (American Reference Books Annual ARBA, June, 2018)

Portrait

Maurizio Meloni is a social theorist and a STS scholar at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Political Biology , the upcoming A Postgenomic Body and co-editor of Biosocial Matters . 

John Cromby is a psychologist at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a co-author of Psychology, Mental Health and Distress and author of Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology . 

Des Fitzgerald is a sociologist and STS scholar at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of T racing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience and co-author of Re thinking Interdisciplinarity Across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences . 

Stephanie Lloyd is a medical anthropologist at the Université Laval, Canada. Her research examines the production of molecular models that attempt to link early experiences to specific behaviours and traits,with a particular focus on epigenetics and neurosciences.

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

05.03.2018

Abbildungen

XV, 22 illus., 4 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen

Herausgeber

Verlag

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Seitenzahl

941

Maße (L/B/H)

24,1/16/5,7 cm

Gewicht

1612 g

Auflage

1st ed. 2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-137-52878-0

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Springer-Verlag GmbH
Tiergartenstr. 17
69121 Heidelberg
DE

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  • 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.