Debating Biology

by Birke; Lynda

• ISBN13: 9780415279031
• ISBN10: 0415279038
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	viii
Introduction: Debating biology	1	(12)
Simon J. Williams
Lynda Birke
Gillian A. Bendelow
PART I Theorizing biology: Critical perspectives	13	(54)
Evolution and human disease: Bridging the biology/culture gap	15	(12)
Basiro Davey
Ultra-Darwinism and health: The limits to evolutionary psychology	27	(12)
Paul Higgs
Ian Rees Jones
Shaping biology: Feminism and the idea of `the biological'	39	(14)
Lynda Birke
Realist agendas on biology, health and medicine: Some thoughts and reflections	53	(14)
Graham Scambler
Sasha Scambler
PART II Structuring biology: Inequalities in health	67	(54)
Biology, social class and inequalities in health: Their synthesis in `health capital'	69	(15)
Mildred Blaxter
Gender and health status: Does biology matter?	84	(12)
Ellen Annandale
Ethnicity and health: Biological and social inheritance	96	(13)
David Kelleher
Brian Hall
The `biological clock'? Ageing, health and the body across the lifecourse	109	(12)
Mike Bury
Mike Wadsworth
PART III Embodying biology: Corporeal matters	121	(62)
The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture	123	(10)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Childhood bodies: Constructionism and beyond	133	(12)
Simon J. Williams
Gillian A. Bendelow
Hormonal bodies, civilized bodies: Incorporating the biological into the sociology of health	145	(12)
Lee F. Monaghan
Incorporating the biological: Chronic illness, bodies, selves, and the material world	157	(12)
Louise M. Millward
Michael P. Kelly
`Liminal' bodies? Sleep, death and dying	169	(14)
Simon J. Williams
PART IV Technologizing/medicalizing biology: A Brave New World?	183	(76)
Investing in mothering: Reproduction, sex selective technologies and biological capital in an Indian case study	185	(13)
Marsha Henry
Rights, risks and responsibilities: New genetics and disabled people	198	(12)
Tom Shakespeare
A normal biological process? Brittle bones, HRT and the patient-doctor encounter	210	(13)
Frances Griffiths
Eileen Green
Enhancing biology? Cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation	223	(12)
Peter Conrad
Heather T. Jacobson
Through the lenses of biology and sociology: Organ replacement	235	(10)
Renee C. Fox
Prozac nation and the biochemical self: A critique	245	(14)
Nick Crossley
PART V Reclaiming biology: (Bio)ethics and beyond	259	(52)
The bioethics of biotechnology: Alternative claims of posthuman futures	261	(10)
Arthur W. Frank
Biology, vulnerability and politics	271	(12)
Bryan Turner
Ecology, health and society: A red-green perspective	283	(15)
Ted Benton
A metaphysics for alternative medicine: `Translating' the social and biological worlds	298	(13)
Anne Scott
Index	311