Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics

By Maurizio Meloni

Book Overview

1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology
2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity
3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics
4. A Political Quadrant
5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945
6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology
7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity
8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First Century

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137377712
• ISBN13: 9781137377715
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"