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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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Relations between the biological and social sciences have been hotly contested and debated over the years. The uses and abuses of biology, not least to legitimate or naturalize social inequalities and to limit freedoms, have rightly been condemned. All too often, however the style of debate has been reductionist and ultimately unfruitful. As we enter an age in which ultr-Darwinian forms of... Read more
Contributors, Introduction: Debating biology, PART I Theorizing biology: Critical perspectives, PART II Structuring biology: Inequalities in health, PART III Embodying biology: Corporeal matters, PART IV Technologizing/medicalizing biology: A Brave New World?, PART V Reclaiming biology: (Bio)ethics and beyond, Index
Biography
Gillian Bendelow, Lynda Birke, Simon Williams
'This is a pioneering and timely collection. Biologists and sociologists have long talked past each other - often generating more heat than light. But Debating Biology shows that the disciplines can be combined in exciting and productive ways. Such collaboration is essential if the condition of humans - and other animals - is to be improved' - Peter Dickens, Universities of Cambridge and Essex
