The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
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
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The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
Maurizio Meloni • John Cromby Des Fitzgerald • Stephanie Lloyd Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
Editors Maurizio Meloni Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK Des Fitzgerald Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
John Cromby School of Management University of Leicester Leicester, UK Stephanie Lloyd Department of Anthropology Laval University Québec, Canada
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Contents
1 Introducing the New Biosocial Landscape 1 Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, and Stephanie Lloyd
Part I History of the Biology/Society Relationship
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2 Models, Metaphors, Lamarckisms and the Emergence of ‘Scientific Sociology’ 25 Snait B. Gissis 3 The Transcendence of the Social: Durkheim, Weismann and the Purification of Sociology 49 Maurizio Meloni 4 Biology, Social Science, and Population in Late Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century Britain 77 Chri
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