Journal article
Epigenetics: ethics, politics, biosociality.
- Chiapperino L STSLab, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 2018-10-18
Published in:
- British medical bulletin. - 2018
Epigenesis, Genetic
Ethics, Research
Humans
Politics
Retrospective Studies
Social Responsibility
Social Sciences
English
Background
Epigenetics is a burgeoning field of contemporary biosciences, which has attracted a lot of interest both in biomedical and in social sciences.
Sources of data
Unsystematic literature analysis and retrospective mapping of highly cited work (source: Web of Science core collection) in the social sciences and humanities engaging with epigenetics.
Areas of agreement
Epigenetics poses no new ethical issue over and above those discussed in relation to genetics.
Areas of controversy
However, it encourages a different framing and reflexivity on some of the commonly held categories in the moral uptake of scientific discoveries.
Growing points
Epigenetics presents us with normative questions that touch upon privacy, responsibility for individual health and for the well-being of future generations, as well as matters of health justice and equality of opportunities.
Areas timely for developing research
Epigenetic thinking could help us adjust and refine the problem frames and categories that inform our ethical and political questions with a complex biosocial description of situations, of persons or actions.
Epigenetics is a burgeoning field of contemporary biosciences, which has attracted a lot of interest both in biomedical and in social sciences.
Sources of data
Unsystematic literature analysis and retrospective mapping of highly cited work (source: Web of Science core collection) in the social sciences and humanities engaging with epigenetics.
Areas of agreement
Epigenetics poses no new ethical issue over and above those discussed in relation to genetics.
Areas of controversy
However, it encourages a different framing and reflexivity on some of the commonly held categories in the moral uptake of scientific discoveries.
Growing points
Epigenetics presents us with normative questions that touch upon privacy, responsibility for individual health and for the well-being of future generations, as well as matters of health justice and equality of opportunities.
Areas timely for developing research
Epigenetic thinking could help us adjust and refine the problem frames and categories that inform our ethical and political questions with a complex biosocial description of situations, of persons or actions.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1093/bmb/ldy033
- PMID 30329024
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/150539
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