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What’s in a name? The three genealogies of the social in social epigenetics

2020-01-20

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Social epigenetics – the study of the epigenetic mechanisms through which social environments become biologically embodied – epitomizes recent claims that the boundaries between the natural and the social sciences should be reduced. Relying on a bibliometric study and on a qualitative analysis of publications in social epigenetics, this article investigates how this research area defines and operationalizes the so...

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Literature Corpus work: a11a11b7-48f8-5fbf-9489-f274061f0731
DOI: 10.1177/0539018419897001

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