Political biology[electronic resourc...
Meloni, Maurizio.

 

  • Political biology[electronic resource] :science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 616.042
    書名/作者: Political biology : science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics // by Maurizio Meloni.
    作者: Meloni, Maurizio.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xi, 284 p. : : digital ;; 23 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Human genetics - Social aspects.
    標題: Human genetics - History.
    標題: Eugenics.
    標題: Epigenetics.
    標題: Social Sciences.
    標題: Medical Sociology.
    標題: Philosophy of Science.
    標題: Sociology, general.
    標題: Societal Aspects of Physics.
    標題: Intellectual Studies.
    標題: Life Sciences, general.
    ISBN: 9781137377722
    ISBN: 9781137377715
    內容註: Chapter 1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology -- Chapter 2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity -- Chapter 3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics -- Chapter 4. A Political Quadrant -- Chapter 5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945 -- Chapter 6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology -- Chapter 7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity -- Chapter 8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First Century.
    摘要、提要註: This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of supporting the transformation of human society via biological knowledge; the repositioning, after 1945, of biological thinking into a liberal-democratic, human rights framework; and the present postgenomic crisis in which the genome can no longer be understood as insulated from environmental signals. In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni argues that thanks to the ascendancy of epigenetics we may be witnessing a return to soft heredity - the idea that these signals can cause changes in biology that are themselves transferable to succeeding generations. This book will be of great interest to scholars across science and technology studies, the philosophy and history of science, and political and social theory.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137377722
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