Format:
1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9798400647086
Content:
The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This book presents one of the first detailed examinations of the political implications of epigenetics. Epigenetics-the study of internal and environmental factors that affect how genes are turned on or off and how cells read those genes-is a rapidly emerging science akin to genetics that introduces a number of novel and unexpected biological explanations of human origins and development. It also poses fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions of the prevailing science of genetics. When science changes, how does public policy respond? This book comprehensively considers the political implications of the emerging science of epigenetics in specific policy domains, addressing the intersections of epigenetics with cancer, obesity, the environment, and the law. Author Shea K. Robison carefully navigates the messy history of genetics and epigenetics in order to explore what changes in public policy might come in the age of a new scientific frontier. Readers will understand how new findings in epigenetic research and increased acceptance of epigenetic science may lead to paradigm shifts in cancer prevention and treatment, significantly different policy solutions for combating obesity, and revised statutes of limitations and laws regarding civil and corporate liability and wrongful life
Note:
Acknowledgments Introduction Epigenetics and Public Policy: The Tip of the Iceberg Part One The Science of Epigenetics Chapter 1 Epigenetics 101 Chapter 2 Epigenetics and Inheritance: Past, Present, and Future Part Two The Political History of Epigenetics Chapter 3 Epigenetics, Lamarck, and Politics Chapter 4 The Evolution of Evolution Chapter 5 Lamarck to Darwin Chapter 6 Ideology and Biology at the Turn of the Century Chapter 7 C. H. Waddington and the Genesis of Epigenetics Chapter 8 Epigenetics and the Dustbin of History Part Three Epigenetics in Public Policy Chapter 9 Epigenetics and Obesity: Cause and Responsibility Chapter 10 A Short Political History of Cancer Chapter 11 Contemporary Epigenetics and the Causes of Cancer Chapter 12 Shifting Foundations: Cancer, Genetics, and Epigenetics Conclusion The Tangled Web of Science and Politics Notes Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781440844690
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781440844706
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1440844704
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400647086
