Maurizio Meloni

Impressionable Biologies (eBook, PDF)

From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates a long history into the beliefs about the plasticity of human biology and analyses the techniques required to govern such permeability. Meloni dissects the complex sociological and biopolitical implications of this emerging plasticity, with important implications for notions of risk, responsibility, and intervention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351689397
• Artikelnr.: 54934310

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Meloni is a social theorist and a science and technology studies scholar. He is the author of Political Biology (Palgrave 2016), co-editor of Biosocial Matters (Wiley 2016), and chief editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society (2018). He is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements: Problematizing the Turn to Plasticity Chapter
One: An Archaeology of Plasticity Chapter Two: Plasticity before
Plasticity: The Humoralist Body Chapter Three: Taming Plasticity: Darwin,
Selectionism, and Modern Agency Chapter Four: Epigenetics or How Matter
Returned to the Genome Chapter Five: A Sociology of the Body After the
Genome References Index