Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? - Margaret M. Lock, Gisli Palsson

Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2016
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8996-8 (ISBN)
57,90 inkl. MwSt
Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of scientists, mapping the human genome indirectly supported these insights. Anthropologists Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson outline vituperative arguments from Classical times about the relationship between nature and nurture, furthered today by epigenetic findings and the demonstration of a "reactive genome." The nature/nurture debate, they show, can never be put to rest, because these concepts are in constant flux in response to the new insights science continually offers.

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland

Preamble: Beyond the Molecular Vision of Life

1. Moveable Concepts: Nature and Nurture

2. Promotion and Demotion of the Gene

3. Reinstating Nurture: From Opposition to Commingling

4. Accruing Biosocial Momentum

5. Biopolitics for the Future

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Human Frontiers - Polity
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 132 x 198 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7456-8996-5 / 0745689965
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-8996-8 / 9780745689968
Zustand Neuware
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