ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Infertility, Biomedicine, Epigenetics
19 Mar 2019
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Several claims of truth explicated during the enlightenment have resonance today: To constrain and dispel anxiety, legal constraints and professional guidelines are create to govern conduct in labs, clinics and consultation rooms. What should be the limits of human intervention into the. Infertility: but just because they claim to be "portable" and applicable everywhere, doesn"t mean they aren"t problematic. Infertility, as a social phenomenon is experienced differently in different cultures and contexts: "they had not yet been invented," but were labeled into existence. The classification of people into a group affects the subjectivity and lives of those classified - the. "creation of kinds of people that in a certain sense did not exist before" (hacking) Two scientific groups are involved in this work: neuroscientists. Focus on picturing and interpreting children"s brain differences - scanning brains: psychiatric epidemiologists. Look at the epigenetic effects of social stress on children"s mental disorders - use epigenetics to distinguish populations.
