TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meloni,Maurizio
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics 
SN  - 9781137377722
AV  - RA418-RA418.5 
U1  - 306.461 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Medical Sociology
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - Sociology, general
KW  - Societal Aspects of Physics
KW  - Intellectual Studies
KW  - Life Sciences, general
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
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