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eBook details
- Title: Biosocial Worlds
- Author : Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff & Lotte Meinert
- Release Date : January 29, 2020
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2092 KB
Description
Biosocial Worlds presents
state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous
boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing
understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human
in these worlds. Growing separation of scientific disciplines for more
than a century has maintained a separation of the ‘natural’ and the ‘social’
that has created a space for projections between the two. Such projections
carry a directional causality and so constitute powerful means to establish
discursive authority.
While arguing against the separation of the biological
and the social in the study of human and non-human life, it remains important
to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation. Based on examples
from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and USA, the volume
explores what has been created in the space between ‘the social’ and ‘the
natural’, with a view to rethink ‘the biosocial’. Health topics in the book include
diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease and
wider issues of epigenetics. Many of the chapters engage with constructions of
health and disease in a wide range of environments, and engage with analysis of
the concept of ‘environment’. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case
studies explore how ‘health’ and ‘environment’ are entangled in ways that move their
relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability. The subtitle of this
volume captures these insights through the concept of ‘health environment’, seeking
to move the engagement of anthropology and biology beyond deterministic projections.
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