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Epigenetics and the New Politics of Heredity - Maurizio Meloni, Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2017
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- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , December 2017 , pp. 596 - 603
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1 Meloni M., Williams S., Martin P., eds, 2016, Biosocial Matters: Rethinking the Sociology-Biology Relations in the Twenty-First Century, Wiley-Blackwell/The Sociological Review.
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3 For example Niewöhner J., “Epigenetics: Embedded bodies and the molecularisation of biography and milieu”, Biosocieties, 6 (3): 279-298; Pickersgill M., Niewöhner J., Müller R., Martin P., Cunningham-Burley S., 2015, “Mapping the new molecular landscape: social dimensions of epigenetics”, New Genetics and Society, 32 (4): 429-447; Tolwinsky K., 2013 “A new genetics or an epiphenomenon? Variations in the discourse of epigenetics researchers”, New Genetics and Society, 32 (4): 366-384.
4 Juengst E., Fishman J., McGowan M., Stersten R., “Serving epigenetics before its time”, Trends in Genetics, 30, 10, 2014: 427-429.
5 See for instance J. Greally’s blog, http://epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com/post/127416455028/over-interpreted-epigenetics-study-of-the-week.
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