Seeberg, J and Roepstorff, A and Meinert, L (Eds).
(2020)
Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism.
[Book].
Culture and Health.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787358232 |
| Open access status: | An open access publication |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787358232 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358232 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2020 Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2020 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Seeberg, J., Roepstorff, A. and Meinert, L. (eds). 2020. Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/ 10.14324/111.9781787358232 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder |
| Keywords: | anthropology, health, biology, culture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110376 |
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