ArticleNew genetics and society2015
Epigenetic Determinism in Science and Society.
Article in New genetics and society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Epigenetic citizenship and political claims-making: the ethics of molecularizing structural racism.BioSocieties · 2022Article
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- Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics.Sociology · 2021Article
- "It's Never Too Early": Preconception Care and Postgenomic Models of Life.Frontiers in sociology · 2020Article
- Communicating science: epigenetics in the spotlight.Environmental epigenetics · 2020Review
- Epigenetics in the public sphere: interdisciplinary perspectives.Environmental epigenetics · 2019Article
- Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses.Social studies of science · 2019Review
- O Organism, Where Art Thou? Old and New Challenges for Organism-Centered Biology.Journal of the history of biology · 2019Article
- Markers as mediators: A review and synthesis of epigenetics literature.BioSocieties · 2019Article
- The paradox of care in behavioral epigenetics: Constructing early-life adversity in the lab.BioSocieties · 2018Article
- Health, wealth and behavioural change: an exploration of role responsibilities in the wake of epigenetics.Journal of community genetics · 2018Article
- Epigenetics Changes Nothing: What a New Scientific Field Does and Does Not Mean for Ethics and Social Justice.Public health ethics · 2018Article
- Geneticizing Ethnicity and Diet: Anti-doping Science and Its Social Impact in the Age of Post-genomics.Frontiers in genetics · 2017Article
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Abstract
The epigenetic "revolution" in science cuts across many disciplines, and it is now one of the fastest growing research areas in biology. Increasingly, claims are made that epigenetics research represents a move away from the genetic determinism that has been prominent both in biological research and in understandings of the impact of biology on society. We discuss to what extent an epigenetic framework actually supports these claims. We show that, in contrast to the received view, epigenetics research is often couched in language as deterministic as genetics research in both science and the popular press. We engage the rapidly emerging conversation about the impact of epigenetics on public discourse and scientific practice, and we contend that the notion of epigenetic determinism - or the belief that epigenetic mechanisms determine the expression of human traits and behaviors - matters for understandings of the influence of biology and society on population health.
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