实现生物社会复杂性:压力,表观遗传生物标志物和后遗传学的工具
1University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Social studies of science
|January 12, 2024
概括
这项研究探讨了表观遗传研究如何在压力的生物社会过程中实现复杂性. 它介绍了"复杂性工作"和"复杂化",以分析科学家如何构建和稳定了解健康的实验系统.
科学领域:
- 科学和技术研究 (STS)
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
- 生物社会研究 生物社会研究
背景情况:
- 后基因组研究,特别是表观遗传学,试图理解与压力和健康相关的复杂生物社会过程.
- 现有的分析往往依赖于简单的二分法,如缩小主义与整体主义.
研究的目的:
- 分析复杂性如何在后基因组实验实践中发挥作用,以心理社会压力的表观遗传研究作为案例研究.
- 开发和应用"复杂性工作"和"复杂化"的概念来描述这些行为.
- 提出一种新的框架来分析科学实践中的复杂性,超越传统的二分法.
主要方法:
- "复杂性工作"和"复杂化"的概念分析.
- 对心理社会压力的生物标志物进行表观遗传研究的案例研究.
- 检查产生压力的生物社会表征的社会,技术和物质方面.
主要成果:
- 在表观遗传学中,生物社会复杂性不是一个统一的概念,而是通过"复杂化"以不同的方式组装在一起.
- "复杂性工作"涉及创造压力的混合生物和社会表征的劳动.
- "复杂化"是指生产,稳定和规范化新型实验系统以更好地实现复杂性的过程.
结论:
- 科学实践的分析应该超越缩小主义与整体主义,简单与复杂的二分法.
- 复杂化的社会学为科学中STS对复杂性的方法提供了有价值的见解.
- 了解复杂化强调了关于科学和社会的集体,社会和政治思维的务实机会.
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