What if genes weren’t the perfect blueprint we’ve been led to believe they are? What if your body was constantly being shaped by its environment? What if your children’s ...
Maurizio Meloni
Maurizio Meloni is a social theorist with strong affiliations to science and technology studies and the history of the life sciences. He is the author of Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (Palgrave, 2016), coeditor of Biosocial Matters: Rethinking the Sociology-Biology Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Wiley, 2016), and chief editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society (2018). His upcoming book is Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics (Routledge, 2019). It addresses the politics of plastic bodies from ancient and early modern medicine to contemporary epigenetics. He is an associate professor of sociology at Deakin University, Australia. 