Debating Biology

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ISBN: 9780415279024 | 041527902X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/30/2003

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Combining contributions from biologists and sociologists,Debating Biologytakes a look at the relationship between biology and society as it is played out in the arena of health and medicine.

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Introduction: Debating biology

(12)

SIMON J. WILLIAMS, LYNDA BIRKE AND GILLIAN A. BENDELOW

PART I Theorizing biology: Critical perspectives

(54)

1 Evolution and human disease: Bridging the biology/culture gap

(12)

BASIRO DAVEM

2 Ultra-Darwinism and health: The limits to evolutionary psychology

(12)

PAUL HIGGS AND IAN REES JONES

3 Shaping biology: Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'

(14)

LYNDA BIRKE

4 Realist agendas on biology, health and medicine: Some thoughts and reflections

(14)

GRAHAM SCAMBLER AND SASHA SCAMBLER

PART II Structuring biology: Inequalities in health

(54)

5 Biology, social class and inequalities in health: Their synthesis in 'health capital'

(15)

MILDRED BLAXTER

6 Gender and health status: Does biology matter?

(12)

ELLEN ANNANDALE

7 Ethnicity and health: Biological and social inheritance

(13)

DAVID KELLEHER AND BRIAN HALL

8 The 'biological clock'? Ageing, health and the body across the lifecourse

109

(12)

MIKE BURY AND MIKE WADSWORTH

PART III Embodying biology: Corporeal matters

121

(62)

9 The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture

123

(10)

ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING

10 Childhood bodies: Constructionism and beyond

133

(12)

SIMON J. WILLIAMS AND GILLIAN A. BENDELOW

11 Hormonal bodies, civilized bodies: Incorporating the biological into the sociology of health

145

(12)

LEE F. MONAGHAN

12 Incorporating the biological: Chronic illness, bodies, selves, and the material world

157

(12)

LOUISE M. MILLWARD AND MICHAEL P. KELLY

13 'Liminal' bodies? Sleep, death and dying

169

(14)

SIMON J. WILLIAMS

PART IV Technologizing/medicalizing biology: A Brave New World?

183

(76)

14 Investing in mothering: Reproduction, sex selective technologies and biological capital in an Indian case study

185

(13)

MARSHA HENRY

15 Rights, risks and responsibilities: New genetics and disabled people

198

(12)

TOM SHAKESPEARE

16 A normal biological process? Brittle bones, HRT and the patient-doctor encounter

210

(13)

FRANCES GRIFFITHS AND EILEEN GREEN

17 Enhancing biology? Cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation

223

(12)

PETER CONRAD AND HEATHER T. JACOBSON

18 Through the lenses of biology and sociology: Organ replacement

235

(10)

RENÉE C. FOX

19 Prozac nation and the biochemical self: A critique

245

(14)

NICK CROSSLEY

PART V Reclaiming biology: (Bio)ethics and beyond

259

(52)

20 The bioethics of biotechnology: Alternative claims of posthuman futures

261

(10)

ARTHUR W. FRANK

21 Biology, vulnerability and politics

271

(12)

BRYAN TURNER

22 Ecology, health and society: A red-green perspective

283

(15)

TED BENTON

23 A metaphysics for alternative medicine: 'Translating' the social and biological worlds

298

(13)

ANNE SCOTT

Index

311

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Debating Biology

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