College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Politics of Biology
Module POL3247 for 2024/5
Module POL3247 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3247: Politics of Biology
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
- Meloni, M. (2016) Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
- Lewontin, R. (1991) Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (New York: Harper Collins)
- Nelkin, D. & Lindee, M. S. (1995) The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.)
- Kevles, D. J. & Hood, L. (eds.) (1992) The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)
- Barker, G. (2015) Beyond Biofatalism: Human Nature for an Evolving World (New York: Columbia University Press)
- Kronfeldner, M. (2018) What’s Left of Human Nature? : A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept (MIT Press)
- Lewens, T. & Hannon, E. (eds.) (2018) Why We Disagree About Human Nature (Oxford University Press)
- Habermas, J. (2003) The Future of Human Nature (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Oyama, S. (2000b) Evolution’s Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (Durham, NC.: Duke University Press)