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Author : William James Millar Mackenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN : 0719007313
Author : Somnath Zutshi
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : 8170462746
What is interesting about race as a concept is that it seems to be and is used as one of the most precise of categories. However, a few moments careful scrutiny reveals race to be precisely the opposite, loosely used to indicate ethnic origin, class, religion, nationality, even caste. Race might be described as both politics disguised as biology, as well as a biological investigation which in most cases has a political goal. It is this simultaneity of reference which gives race its slippery quality. This investigation ranges over crucial concepts and practices such as racism, slavery and the slave trade, anthropology, intelligence testing and I.Q., anti-semitism, fascism and the Nazis, colonialism, and the nation-state, to hold up to rational scrutiny one of the most problematic but unquestioned terms in current usage today. Dr Somnath Zutshi, a psychoanalyst by training, studies and writes on cinema.
Author : Lynton Keith Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429721939
Biocracy, a term invented by physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon, refers to the influence of biological science on society and its public policies. Beginning with the prophetic essay “Biopolitics: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy,†this book addresses various aspects of the relationships among the life sciences, society, and government. Included in the topics considered are some of the more critical issues of our time: the social responses to life science innovations; health and homeostasis as social concepts; the relationship between history and biology and that between the life sciences and the law; biocratic interpretations of ethical behavior and biopolitical conflicts; and the options, risks, and international consequences of biotechnology. Caldwell’s book is a collection of articles that he wrote on this subject over a period of twenty-five years. Of the ten chapters, four have previously appeared in scholarly journals but have undergone extensive editorial revisions appropriate to this publication. The remaining six chapters have been presented at various professional meetings but have not hitherto been available in print.
Author : John R. Hibbing,Kevin B. Smith,John R. Alford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136281211
Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always reason and the careful consideration of facts. These predispositions are in turn responsible for a significant portion of the political and ideological conflict that marks human history. With verve and wit, renowned social scientists John Hibbing, Kevin Smith, and John Alford—pioneers in the field of biopolitics—present overwhelming evidence that people differ politically not just because they grew up in different cultures or were presented with different information. Despite the oft-heard longing for consensus, unity, and peace, the universal rift between conservatives and liberals endures because people have diverse psychological, physiological, and genetic traits. These biological differences influence much of what makes people who they are, including their orientations to politics. Political disputes typically spring from the assumption that those who do not agree with us are shallow, misguided, uninformed, and ignorant. Predisposed suggests instead that political opponents simply experience, process, and respond to the world differently. It follows, then, that the key to getting along politically is not the ability of one side to persuade the other side to see the error of its ways but rather the ability of each side to see that the other is different, not just politically, but physically. Predisposed will change the way you think about politics and partisan conflict. As a bonus, the book includes a "Left/Right 20 Questions" game to test whether your predispositions lean liberal or conservative.
Author : Albert Somit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015008864350
Author : M. Meloni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137377722
This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of supporting the transformation of human society via biological knowledge; the repositioning, after 1945, of biological thinking into a liberal-democratic, human rights framework; and the present postgenomic crisis in which the genome can no longer be understood as insulated from environmental signals. In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni argues that thanks to the ascendancy of epigenetics we may be witnessing a return to soft heredity - the idea that these signals can cause changes in biology that are themselves transferable to succeeding generations. This book will be of great interest to scholars across science and technology studies, the philosophy and history of science, and political and social theory.
Author : Steven A. Peterson,Albert Somit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783476275
The study of biology and politics (or biopolitics) has gained considerable currency in recent years, as articles on the subject have appeared in mainstream journals and books on the subject have been well received. The literature has increased greatly since the 1960s and 1970s, when this specialization first made an appearance. This volume assesses the contributions of biology to political science. Chapters focus on general biological approaches to politics, biopolitical contributions to mainstream areas within political science, and linkages between biology and public policy. The volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the subject.
Author : Jonathan Marks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745689258
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically. This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.
Author : Albert Somit,Steven A. Peterson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857245809
Examines the research in the study of biology and politics. This book explores the linkage between evolution, genetics and politics with initial chapters on abandoned baby legislation, a model of action and norms, and the biopolitics of primates. It also features chapters on how to use neuroimaging techniques to study political behaviour.
Author : Matteo Mameli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350189768
Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that the answer to both questions is 'yes'. This philosophical account offers new tools for connecting biological and political perspectives on humanity. The focus is on the construction of human relations and environments, and on the complex materiality of these transformations. The structure and history of the philosophical and scientific debates on human nature show that political praxis and ideas about human nature interact in a variety of ways. Ideas about human nature affect how people live their lives, organize their societies, and imagine their futures. The book explores these processes and their implications for the present state of our species. Appeals to human nature can uphold the status quo or advocate for change, and they can be wielded for exclusion or inclusion. The book proposes ways of thinking about human nature that stress the importance of diversity, plasticity, cooperation, and freedom.
Author : Maurizio Meloni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137377739
Author : Roger D. Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300049811
Drawing on evidence from the sciences, Masters (government, Dartmouth College) explores the idea that politics is a natural phenomenon with many parallels in the natural world. Among the varied topics he examines from this perspective are the nature of human selfishness and altruism, participation in social groups, and the evolution of language and culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Graham Wallas
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412825695
If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take it out with the corner of his handkerchief, I generally close the eye as soon as the handkerchief comes near, and always feel a strong impulse to do so. Nobody supposes that I close my eye because, after due consideration, I think it my interest to do so.
Author : David Fidler,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804750295
"The renewed threat of biological weapons highlights the importance of crafting policy responses informed by the rule of law. This book explores patterns in recent governance initiatives and advocates building a "global biosecurity concert" as a way to address the threats presented by biological weapons and infectious diseases in the early 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Maurizio Meloni,John Cromby,Des Fitzgerald,Stephanie Lloyd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137528797
This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate how nuanced attention to both the biological and social sciences opens up novel perspectives upon some of the most significant sociological, anthropological, philosophical and biological questions of our era. The six sections cover topics ranging from genomics and epigenetics, to neuroscience and psychology to social epidemiology and medicine. The authors collaboratively present state-of-the-art research and perspectives in some of the most intriguing areas of what can be called biosocial and biocultural approaches, demonstrating how quickly we are moving beyond the acrimonious debates that characterized the border between biology and society for most of the twentieth century. This landmark volume will be an extremely valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in all areas of the social and biological sciences. The chapter 'Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Versions of the chapters 'The Transcendence of the Social', 'Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution', 'Species of Biocapital, 2008, and Speciating Biocapital, 2017' and 'Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience Beyond Interdisciplinarity' are available open access via third parties. For further information please see license information in the chapters or on link.springer.com.
