Trauma is associated with the appearance of the concept of 'accident'as a social and legal
entity, as well as with the successive discoveries of surgery, psychiatrics, and …

In recent years, many studies invoking epigenetic mechanisms have focused on nutrition,
studying the epigenetic incidence of stress in African-American populations who suffered the …

While numerous qualitative social scientific analyses of (environmental) epigenetics have
been published, we still lack a macro-level, quantitative assessment of the field of …

Epigenetics is a multifaceted field within genetics and genomics which focuses on
discovering mechanisms involved in gene expression and regulation. It came to public …

This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I
distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the microbiome, and I show evidence that …

Following the spectacular rise of epigenetics since the early 2000s, an increasing number of
social scientists have called for it to be recognized as an 'interdiscipline', at the crossroads of …

Social epigenetics–the study of the epigenetic mechanisms through which social
environments become biologically embodied–epitomizes recent claims that the boundaries …

Dans un contexte intellectuel où l'on aurait pu attendre des tentatives récurrentes de
délégitimation de la sociologie qu'elles suscitent en retour une distanciation de ses …

L'ouvrage de Laurent Cordonier, publié aux Presses universitaires de France sous la
direction scientifique de Gérald Bronner (côtoyé par l'auteur à l'Université Paris-Diderot) et …

Just when molecular biology is arguably delivering on some of its long‐promised medical
applications—think mRNA vaccines, monoclonal antibody drugs, PCR testing, and gene …