Situando a biologia: de biologias locais à epigenética

• Autor(a) principal: Assad, Maria Luiza Ghizi
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4354
• topic: Local biologies; Epigenetics; Nature and Nurture; Biosocial; Biocultural; Epigenetic inheritance; Biologias locais; Epigenética; Natureza e Cultura; Biossocial; Biocultural; Herança epigenética; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

As it has been claimed that a new dialogue between the human sciences and the biosciences is taking course, we propose to follow here a double movement, of what appears to be a symmetrical movement of dissolution, by both sides, of the dichotomies between nature and nurture, the biological and the social. Thus, on the one hand, we present this movement from the viewpoint of the humanities, that of Anthropology more specifically, through the unfolding of the concept of local biologies, coined by Margaret Lock in the early 1990s; on the other hand, by presenting the field of epigenetics as a representative of a new possible style of thought emerging from the life sciences. We proceed through a literature review on the idea of local biologies and on discussions with regard to epigenetics, in order to observe how the biological materiality of the human body is configured in both perspectives. Thus, we will look at how both approaches might develop a view about its contingency, in contrast to a universal, uniform or a priori feature ascribed to the biology of the human body that has helped to isolate the latter from its material and social environments. We will summarize this contextualization of biology noting the temporal dimension that permeates it, questioning the limits of a biological inheritance that, despite having served in a first moment to help establish boundaries around the body's foundations, now appears to indicate its permeability.