Shea K. Robison

Epigenetics and Public Policy (eBook, PDF)

The Tangled Web of Science and Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This book presents one of the first detailed examinations of the political implications of epigenetics.

Epigenetics-the study of internal and environmental factors that affect how genes are turned on or off and how cells read those genes-is a rapidly emerging science akin to genetics that introduces a number of novel and unexpected biological explanations of human origins and development. It also poses fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions of the prevailing science of genetics. When science changes, how does public policy respond?

This book comprehensively considers the political implications of the emerging science of epigenetics in specific policy domains, addressing the intersections of epigenetics with cancer, obesity, the environment, and the law. Author Shea K. Robison carefully navigates the messy history of genetics and epigenetics in order to explore what changes in public policy might come in the age of a new scientific frontier. Readers will understand how new findings in epigenetic research and increased acceptance of epigenetic science may lead to paradigm shifts in cancer prevention and treatment, significantly different policy solutions for combating obesity, and revised statutes of limitations and laws regarding civil and corporate liability and wrongful life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440844706
• Artikelnr.: 68205890

Autorenporträt

Dr. Shea K. Robison currently teaches at Idaho State University and the College of Eastern Idaho. He recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the Department of Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Epigenetics and Public Policy: The Tip of the
Iceberg Part One The Science of Epigenetics Chapter 1 Epigenetics 101
Chapter 2 Epigenetics and Inheritance: Past, Present, and Future Part Two
The Political History of Epigenetics Chapter 3 Epigenetics, Lamarck, and
Politics Chapter 4 The Evolution of Evolution Chapter 5 Lamarck to Darwin
Chapter 6 Ideology and Biology at the Turn of the Century Chapter 7 C. H.
Waddington and the Genesis of Epigenetics Chapter 8 Epigenetics and the
Dustbin of History Part Three Epigenetics in Public Policy Chapter 9
Epigenetics and Obesity: Cause and Responsibility Chapter 10 A Short
Political History of Cancer Chapter 11 Contemporary Epigenetics and the
Causes of Cancer Chapter 12 Shifting Foundations: Cancer, Genetics, and
Epigenetics Conclusion The Tangled Web of Science and Politics Notes Index