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Author:

Meloni, Maurizio, 1971- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006015006

Title:

Political biology : science and social values in human heredity from eugenics to epigenetics / Maurizio Meloni, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xi, 284 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Human genetics--Social aspects.
Human genetics--History.
Eugenics.
Epigenetics.
Epigenetics.
Eugenics.
Human genetics.
Human genetics--Social aspects.
Heredity.
Eugenics--history.
Epigenomics--history.
Politics.
Social Values--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1137377712
9781137377715

OCLC:

(OCoLC)922910337

LCCN:

2015033202

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)