03852nam 22007335 450 991025330730332120200703073525.01-137-37772-010.1057/9781137377722(CKB)4210000000000545(SSID)ssj0001674979(PQKBManifestationID)16483946(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674979(PQKBWorkID)14822736(PQKB)10713026(DE-He213)978-1-137-37772-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4720404(PPN)196760194(EXLCZ)99421000000000054520160525d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrPolitical Biology[electronic resource] Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics /by M. Meloni1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XI, 284 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-137-37771-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Social medicinePhilosophy and scienceSociologyScience—Social aspectsIntellectual life—HistoryLife sciencesMedical Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22150Philosophy of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000Sociology, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22000Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Educationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P34000Intellectual Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/729000Life Sciences, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L00004History.fastSocial medicine.Philosophy and science.Sociology.Science—Social aspects.Intellectual life—History.Life sciences.Medical Sociology.Philosophy of Science.Sociology, general.Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.Intellectual Studies.Life Sciences, general.616/.042Meloni Mauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059657BOOK9910253307303321Political Biology2507480UNINA