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

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

Includes bibliographical references

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1. Verfasser: Meloni, Maurizio (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2016
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Human genetics / Social aspects > Human genetics / History > Eugenics > Epigenetics > Human genetics > Geschichte > Gesellschaft > Epigenetik > Eugenik > Politisierung > Humangenetik
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Zusammenfassung:Includes bibliographical references
Political biology and the politics of epistemology -- Nineteenth century: from heredity to hard-heredity -- Into the wild: the radical ethos of eugenics -- A political quadrant -- Time for a repositioning: political biology after 1945 -- Pillars of democratic biology -- Welcome to postgenomics: reactive genomes, epigenetics and the rebirth of soft-heredity -- Conclusions: the quandary of political biology in the twenty-first century
Beschreibung:XI, 284 Seiten
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ISBN:9781137377715
978-1-137-37771-5