The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society

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This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate how nuanced attention to both the biological and social sciences opens up novel perspectives upon some of the most significant sociological, anthropological, philosophical and biological questions of our era. The six sections cover topics ranging from genomics and epigenetics, to neuroscience and psychology to social epidemiology and medicine. The authors collaboratively present state-of-the-art research and perspectives in some of the most intriguing areas of what can be called biosocial and biocultural approaches, demonstrating how quickly we are moving beyond the acrimonious debates that characterized the border between biology and society for most of the twentieth century. This landmark volume will be an extremely valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in all areas of the social and biological sciences. The chapter 'Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Versions of the chapters 'The Transcendence of the Social', 'Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution', 'Species of Biocapital, 2008, and Speciating Biocapital, 2017' and 'Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience Beyond Interdisciplinarity' are available open access via third parties. For further information please see license information in the chapters or on link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introducing the New Biosocial Landscape (Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Models, Metaphors, Lamarckisms and the Emergence of ‘Scientific Sociology’ (Snait B. Gissis)....Pages 25-47 The Transcendence of the Social: Durkheim, Weismann and the Purification of Sociology (Maurizio Meloni)....Pages 49-76 Biology, Social Science, and Population in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Chris Renwick)....Pages 77-95 The Concept of Plasticity in the History of the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Early Twentieth Century (Antonine Nicoglou)....Pages 97-122 An Evolving, Evolutionary Science of Human Differences (Jonathan Marks)....Pages 123-141 Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research (William Viney)....Pages 143-166 Histories and Meanings of Epigenetics (Tatjana Buklijas)....Pages 167-187 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution (Maurizio Meloni, Giuseppe Testa)....Pages 191-225 Social and Behavioral Epigenetics: Evolving Perspectives on Nature-Nurture Interplay, Plasticity, and Inheritance (Frances A. Champagne)....Pages 227-250 Molecular Multicultures (Amy Hinterberger)....Pages 251-268 The First Thousand Days: Epigenetics in the Age of Global Health (Michelle Pentecost)....Pages 269-294 Genetics, Epigenetics and Social Justice in Education: Learning as a Complex Biosocial Phenomenon (Deborah Youdell)....Pages 295-315 Assembling Biomedical Big Data (Sabina Leonelli)....Pages 317-337 Front Matter ....Pages 339-339 Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience (Jan Slaby, Suparna Choudhury)....Pages 341-370 On the Neurodisciplines of Culture (Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega)....Pages 371-390 Affective Neuroscience as Sociological Inquiry? (Christian von Scheve)....Pages 391-415 “Bio-looping” and the Psychophysiological in Religious Belief and Practice: Mechanisms of Embodiment in Candomblé Trance and Possession (Rebecca Seligman)....Pages 417-439 Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience Beyond Interdisciplinarity (Des Fitzgerald, Felicity Callard)....Pages 441-472 Developing Schizophrenia (John Cromby)....Pages 473-489 Epigenetics and the Suicidal Brain: Reconsidering Context in an Emergent Style of Reasoning (Stephanie Lloyd, Eugene Raikhel)....Pages 491-515 Front Matter ....Pages 517-517 The Embodiment Dynamic over the Life Course: A Case for Examining Cancer Aetiology (Michelle Kelly-Irving, Cyrille Delpierre)....Pages 519-540 Epigenetic Signatures of Socioeconomic Status Across the Lifecourse (Silvia Stringhini, Paolo Vineis)....Pages 541-559 An Inter-generational Perspective on Social Inequality in Health and Life Opportunities: The Maternal Capital Model (Jonathan C. K. Wells, Akanksha A. Marphatia)....Pages 561-586 Quantifying Social Influences Throughout the Life Course: Action, Structure and ‘Omics’ (Michael P. Kelly, Rachel S. Kelly)....Pages 587-609 Health Inequalities and the Interplay of Socioeconomic Factors and Health in the Life Course (Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Eduwin Pakpahan)....Pages 611-637 Front Matter ....Pages 639-639 Universal Biology, Local Society? Notes from Anthropology (Patrick Bieler, Jörg Niewöhner)....Pages 641-662 Big Data and Biomedicine (Nadine Levin)....Pages 663-681 Personalised and Precision Medicine: What Kind of Society Does It Take? (Barbara Prainsack)....Pages 683-701 Emergent Postgenomic Bodies and Their (Non)Scalable Environments (Megan Warin, Aryn Martin)....Pages 703-725 The Vitality of Disease (Ayo Wahlberg)....Pages 727-748 Bioethnography: A How-To Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Elizabeth F. S. Roberts, Camilo Sanz)....Pages 749-775 Front Matter ....Pages 777-777 The Postgenomic Politics of Race (Catherine Bliss)....Pages 779-797 Of Rats and Women: Narratives of Motherhood in Environmental Epigenetics (Martha Kenney, Ruth Müller)....Pages 799-830 Ancestors and Identities: DNA, Genealogy, and Stories (Jessica Bardill)....Pages 831-849 Species of Biocapital, 2008, and Speciating Biocapital, 2017 (Stefan Helmreich, Nicole Labruto)....Pages 851-876 Human Tendencies (Ed Cohen)....Pages 877-895 Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations (Samantha Frost)....Pages 897-923 Back Matter ....Pages 925-941