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

Political biology and the politics of epistemologyNineteenth 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...

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1. Verfasser: Meloni, Maurizio (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Political biology and the politics of epistemologyNineteenth 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.
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:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 284 pages
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23 cm
ISBN:9781137377715
978-1-137-37771-5
1137377712
1-137-37771-2
9781137377729