Biosocial Worlds
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Biosocial Worlds
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Author : Jens Seeberg
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Biosocial Worlds written by Jens Seeberg and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Social Science categories.
Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human in these worlds. Growing separation of scientific disciplines for more than a century has maintained a separation of the ‘natural’ and the ‘social’ that has created a space for projections between the two. Such projections carry a directional causality and so constitute powerful means to establish discursive authority. While arguing against the separation of the biological and the social in the study of human and non-human life, it remains important to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation. Based on examples from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and USA, the volume explores what has been created in the space between ‘the social’ and ‘the natural’, with a view to rethink ‘the biosocial’. Health topics in the book include diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease and wider issues of epigenetics. Many of the chapters engage with constructions of health and disease in a wide range of environments, and engage with analysis of the concept of ‘environment’. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case studies explore how ‘health’ and ‘environment’ are entangled in ways that move their relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability. The subtitle of this volume captures these insights through the concept of ‘health environment’, seeking to move the engagement of anthropology and biology beyond deterministic projections.
Biosocial Worlds
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Author : Seeberg Jens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Biosocial Worlds written by Seeberg Jens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.
Introduction -- 1. Permeable bodies and environmental delineation -- 2. Situating biologies. Studying differentiation as material-semiotic practice -- 3. Pig-human relations in neonatology: knowing and unknowing in a multi-species collaborative -- 4. Anthropology's end to biodeterminism: a new sociobiology -- 5. Tribes without rulers: bacteria life in the human holobiont -- 6. Biosocial dynamics of multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: a bacterial perspective -- 7. When sickness comes in multiples: co-morbidity in Botswana -- 8. Legacies of violence: the communicability of spirits and trauma in Northern Uganda -- 9. Extinction and time amid climate change or, what is a Horizon?
Biosocial Synchrony On Sumba
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Author : Cynthia T. Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-12
Biosocial Synchrony On Sumba written by Cynthia T. Fowler and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-12 with Social Science categories.
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research with information from geospatial science, marine ecology, astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.
Multiple Autisms
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Author : Jennifer S. Singh
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Multiple Autisms written by Jennifer S. Singh and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out—and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become—no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective. In 2004, when Singh began her research, the prevalence of autism was reported as 1 in 150 children. Ten years later, the number had jumped to 1 in 100, with the disorder five times more common in boys than in girls. Meanwhile the diagnosis changed to “autistic spectrum disorders,” and investigations began to focus more on genomics than genetics, less on single genes than on hundreds of interacting genes. Multiple Autisms charts this shift and its consequences through nine years of ethnographic observations, analysis of scientific and related literatures, and morethan seventy interviews with autism scientists, parents of children with autism, and people on the autism spectrum. The book maps out the social history of parental activism in autism genetics, the scientific optimism about finding a gene for autism and the subsequent failure, and the cost in personal and social terms of viewing and translating autism through a genomic lens. How is genetic information useful to people living with autism? By considering this question alongside the scientific and social issues that autism research raises, Singh’s work shows us the true reach and implications of a genomic gaze.
Biosocial Becomings
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Author : Tim Ingold
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Biosocial Becomings written by Tim Ingold and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.
Configuring Contagion
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Author : Lotte Meinert
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Configuring Contagion written by Lotte Meinert and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with Social Science categories.
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Kierkegaard After The Genome
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Author : Ada S. Jaarsma
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-20
Kierkegaard After The Genome written by Ada S. Jaarsma and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-20 with Philosophy categories.
This book brings Søren Kierkegaard’s nineteenth-century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of “freedom” and “despair” to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies. The book draws out the materialist dimensions of belief, examining the existential dynamics of phenomena like placebos, epigenetics, pedagogy, and scientific inquiry itself. Each chapter dramatizes the ways in which abstractions like “race” or “genes” and even “belief” are sites of contested practices with pressing political significance. Focusing on the existential dangers posed by neo-liberal and finance capitalist systems, the book brings to life the resources for resistance found within science studies and critical approaches to race, secularity, and disability. Throughout the book, Kierkegaard becomes an ally with ecological and developmental evolutionary theorists, as well as with science studies, critical race, and crip theorists who foreground the relational and impassioned nature of existence.
Integrative Approaches In Environmental Health And Exposome Research
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Author : Élodie Giroux
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-06-12
Integrative Approaches In Environmental Health And Exposome Research written by Élodie Giroux and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-12 with Social Science categories.
Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.
Anthropologies Of Cancer In Transnational Worlds
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Author : Holly F. Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Anthropologies Of Cancer In Transnational Worlds written by Holly F. Mathews and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Social Science categories.
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease. This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle- and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and underlying political forces and structural variables. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776937_oachapter3.pdf
Sociology
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Author : Rosemary L. Hopcroft
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-08
Sociology written by Rosemary L. Hopcroft and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Political Science categories.
In an era of human genome research, environmental challenges, new reproductive technologies, and more, students can benefit from an introductory sociology text that is a biologically informed. This innovative text integrates mainstream sociological research in all areas of sociology with a scientifically-informed model of an evolved, biological human actor. This text allows students to better understand their emotional, social, and institutional worlds. It also illustrates how biological understanding naturally enhances the sociological approach. This grounding of sociology in a biosocial conception of the individual actor is coupled with a comparative approach, as human biology is universal and often reveals itself as variations on themes across human cultures. Tables, Figures, Photos, and the author's concise and remarkably lively style make this a truly enjoyable book to read and teach.