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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
About the Author: 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 Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience and co-author of Rethinking 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.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781137528780
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2018
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1558 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1137528788
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 941
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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