Gendered imaginaries: situating knowledge of epigenetic programming of health
| Autor: | Francesco Panese, Luca Chiapperino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Biomedical Research
Disease/etiology Disease/genetics Epigenesis Genetic Epigenomics/methods Female Health Humans Male Parents Sex Factors developmental origins of health and diseases (DOHaD) epigenetics epistemic economies imaginaries moral economies Epigenomics 0301 basic medicine Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject Relative weight 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Situated Disease 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Set (psychology) media_common Constitution Health Policy Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Disease etiology Epistemology Epigenetic programming 030104 developmental biology Developmental programming |
| Zdroj: | Sociology of health & illness, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1233-1249 |
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12779 |
| Popis: | Our paper explores the value-laden and epistemic resources that scientists working in epigenetics and developmental programming of health and disease (DOHaD) mobilise to produce scientific representations of pregnancy and parenthood, which in turn imagine norms, values, and responsibilities for the protection of future generations. In order to do so, we first describe the place of questions regarding the relative weight of paternal and maternal influences on the health of the offspring in the discursive formalisation of this research in scientific publications. This enables us to identify the mutual constitution of 'prototypes' (i.e. experimental designs, settings, techniques) and 'stereotypes' (i.e. social meanings, beliefs, norms and values) of parental roles in DOHaD and epigenetic biomedical sciences, by means of a specific gendered figuration of paternal influences: the 'father-as-sperm'. Second, and drawing from a set of interviews (N = 15), we describe a tension between this dominant, objectifying molecular discourse and the perspective of individual scientists. The situated perspective of individual researchers provides in fact evidence for a conflictual (moral and epistemic) economy of gendered engagements with parental figurations in DOHaD and epigenetic research, and consequently suggests a more fine-grained, as well as conflictual web of socio-political positioning of this 'knowledge' in its societal circulation. |
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