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

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description xi, 284 pages ; 23 cm 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Human genetics -- Social aspects. Human genetics -- History. Eugenics. Epigenetics. Genetic Phenomena. Genre/Form History. LC no. 2015033202 ISBN 9781137377715 (hardback) 1137377712 (hardback)

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