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Impressionable Biologies
- From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics
Engelsk Paperback
Impressionable Biologies
- From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics
Engelsk Paperback

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During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped the politics of human heredity: in the eugenic era, controlling heredity meant intervening in the distribution of "good" and "bad" genes. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, this centrality of genes has been challenged by a number of "postgenomic" disciplines. The rise of epigenetics in particular signals a shift from notions of biological fixedness to ideas of plasticity and "impressionability" of biological material.

This book investigates a long history of the beliefs about the plasticity of human biology, starting with ancient medicine, and analyses the biopolitical techniques required to govern such permeability. It looks at the emergence of the modern body of biomedicine as a necessary displacement or possibly reconfiguration of earlier plastic views. Finally, it analyses the returning of plasticity to contemporary postgenomic views and argues that postgenomic plasticity is neither a modernistic plasticity of instrumental management of the body nor a postmodernist celebration of potentialities. It is instead a plasticity that disrupts clear boundaries between openness and determination, individual and community, with important implications for notions of risk, responsibility and intervention.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
218
ISBN-13:
9781138049413
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1138049417
Udg. Dato:
16 jan 2019
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
16 jan 2019
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