CfA & CfP: Topical Collection in HPLS on "Postgenomic Determinisms"

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From: Jan Baedke <Jan.B...@web.de>

Call for Papers:
Prospective Topical Collection in Journal 'History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences': 
"Postgenomic Determinisms: Environmental Narratives After the Century of the Gene"

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30th September 2021

 

From the perspective of the life sciences, the 20th century has often been described as the century of the gene. However, since the turn of the century, new 'postgenomic' sciences have emerged and thrived. In fields like epigenetics, nutrigenomics and microbiome research, findings have appeared which link the material and social environment – including factors such as stress, toxins, lifestyles, nutritional habits, and income – to our ontogenetic and even transgenerational destinies. Diseases like cancer and type-2 diabetes, as well as obesity, autism, and trauma, are conceptualized as instances of social and environmental 'programming.' Whilst the new, more complex, picture that postgenomic science brings appears to hold the capacity to disrupt previous genetic determinist thinking, some scholars have suggested that these developments have simultaneously introduced deterministic narratives of their own. 

 

We invite contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives (including philosophy, history of science, sociology and STS) that will illuminate, analyse, and situate this arguably novel deterministic thinking and grapple with its underlying conceptual frameworks and historical past as well as with its broader societal implications. We are interested in contributions engaging with a range of 'postgenomic' fields, including but not limited to: epigenetics, microbiome research, metabolomics, exposomics, developmental origins of health and disease, personalised medicine & nutrition. 

 

For more information, see the attached pdf or here: https://cutt.ly/FQZ8NI6

 

Please submit an abstract (500 words maximum) by 30th September 2021 to azita.ch...@rub.de, jan.b...@rub.de, & maurizi...@deakin.edu.au. We will invite full papers by 1st November 2021, and the deadline for full papers is 31st May 2022. 

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Jan Baedke
Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Philosophy I
Universitätsstrasse 150
D-44801 Bochum

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