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Political biology = science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political biology/ by Maurizio Meloni.
Reminder of title:	science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics /
Author:	Meloni, Maurizio.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xi, 284 p. :digital ; : 23 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Human genetics - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137377722
ISBN:	9781137377722

Political biology = science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics /
Meloni, Maurizio.

Political biologyscience and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics /[electronic resource] :by Maurizio Meloni. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xi, 284 p. :digital ;23 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781137377722

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137377722doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

906934
Human genetics
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: QH438.7 / .M454 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 616.042

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