Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics.
Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics.
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10.1177/0038038520954752
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发表时间：
2021-06
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Pickersgill M
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Pickersgill M
表观遗传学被许多人认为是生物医学的一个引人注目的领域。所谓的表观遗传学的新颖性已经开始产生各种各样的社会影响，特别是在责任过程方面。在社会学内部，它激发了关于生物医学和社会科学之间概念和解的充满希望的辩论。这篇文章关注的是新奇是如何在社会上产生和协商的。这篇文章直接引用了科学家们关于表观遗传学（作为研究过程和领域）的谈话和著作。我的目标是对表观遗传学的新颖性提出明确的社会学分析，强调其社会生产，而不是参与其具体化的描述。我关注定义上的冲突，与遗传学的比较，兴奋和阴谋，以及对表观遗传学伦理维度的考虑。任何关于表观遗传学令人兴奋或重要的断言，都不应不经意地忽略了对这些特征如何成为它们成为现实的机制的一部分的反射性考虑。
Epigenetics is regarded by many as a compelling domain of biomedicine. The purported novelty of epigenetics has begun to have various societal ramifications, particularly in relation to processes of responsibilisation. Within sociology, it has stimulated hopeful debate about conceptual rapprochements between the biomedical and social sciences. This article is concerned with how novelty is socially produced and negotiated. The article engages directly with scientists’ talk and writings about epigenetics (as process and field of study). I aim to advance an explicitly sociological analysis about the novelty of epigenetics that underscores its social production rather than an account which participates in its reification. I attend to definitional skirmishes, comparisons with genetics, excitement and intrigue, and considerations of the ethical dimensions of epigenetics. Any assertions that epigenetics is exciting or important should not inadvertently elide reflexive consideration of how such characterisations might be part of the machinery by which they become real.
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