Epigenetics for the social sciences: justice, embodiment, and inheritance in the postgenomic age
Epigenetics for the social sciences: justice, embodiment, and inheritance in the postgenomic age
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社会科学的表观遗传学:后基因组时代的正义、体现和继承
DOI:
10.1080/14636778.2015.1034850
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Maurizio Meloni
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作者:
Maurizio Meloni
In this paper, I firstly situate the current rise of interest in epigenetics in the broader history of attempts to go “beyond the gene” in twentieth-century biology. In the second part, after a summary of the main differences between epigenetic and genetic mutations, I consider what kind of implications the sui generis features of epigenetic mutations may have for the social sciences. I focus in particular on two sites of investigation: (a) the blurring of the boundaries between natural and social inequalities in theories of justice and their possible implications for public policy and public health and (b) a deepening of the notion that the constitution of the body is deeply dependent on its material and socially shaped surroundings (“embodied constructivism”). In conclusion, I advance some cautionary reflections on some of the (known and unprecedented) problems that the circulation of epigenetics in wider society may present.
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