Editorial introduction
1. The biosocial: sociological themes and issues (Maurizio Meloni, Simon Williams and Paul Martin)
Rise of the new biology: implications for the social sciences
2. Thinking about biology and culture: can the natural and human sciences be integrated? (Evelyn Fox Keller)
3. Cultural epigenetics (Eva Jablonka)
4. From boundary-work to boundary object: how biology left and re-entered the social sciences (Maurizio Meloni)
5. The social as signal in the body of chromatin (Hannah Landecker)
Thinking biosocially: promises, problems, prospects
6. Unstable bodies: biosocial perspectives on human variation (Gisli Palsson)
7. The turn to biology (Tim Newton)
8. Organizing the organism: a re-casting of the bio-social interface for our times (Steve Fuller)
9. New bottles for new wine: Julian Huxley, biology and sociology in Britain (Chris Renwick)
Biosocial challenges and opportunities: epigenetics and neuroscience
10. Social epigenetics: a science of social science? (Emma Chung, John Cromby, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Cristina Tufarelli)
11. Epistemic modesty, ostentatiousness and the uncertainties of epigenetics: on the knowledge machinery of (social) science (Martyn Pickersgill)
12. The epigenomic self in personalized medicine: between responsibility and empowerment (Luca Chiapperino and Giuseppe Testa)
13. Living well in the Neuropolis (Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh)
14. The nature of structure: a biosocial approach (John Bone)
15. The challenges of new biopsychosocialities: hearing voices, trauma, epigenetics and mediated perception (Lisa Blackman)
Notes on contributors
Index