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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Airs, Waters, Places... and the Exposome: Steps Toward an Integrative Health
References
Articulating the Social and the Biological
The Turn Towards 'The Biosocial' in Epigenetics: Ontological, Epistemic and Socio-Political Considerations
1 Introduction
2 Biosocial Ontologies of the Living
3 Biosocial as Qualifier of Epistemic Practices
4 Biosocial as an Attribute of Socio-Political Strategies of Intervention
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Socio-Markers and Information Transmission
1 Bio-Markers and the Molecular Turn in the Health Sciences
2 The Concept of Socio-Marker
2.1 Social Factors as Proximate Causes
2.2 Social Determinants vs Socio-Markers
3 How to Trace Information Transmission with Bio- and Socio-Markers
3.1 Causal Production in the Processes of Health and Disease
3.2 The Concept of Information Transmission
4 Using Bio- and Socio-Markers
5 Conclusion
References
What's Wrong with the Biologization of Social Inequalities in Health? A History of Social Epidemiology and Its Moral Economy of Objectivity
1 Introduction
2 Walter Cannon and the Social Etiology of Disease
3 René Dubos: Stress and Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
4 John Cassel: Incarnating the Emotional Revolt Against Diseases
5 From Syme to Marmot: The Britannicization and the Internationalization of Social Epidemiology
6 Peter Sterling and Joseph Eyer: From Allostasis to Allostatic Overload
7 Discussion: Biologizing Social Inequalities in Health as a Specific Moral Economy of Objectivity
8 Conclusion
References
Integration in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological Issues
Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology
1 Introduction
2 The Many Faces of Integration: Why Data Integration Matters
3 The Exposome: Integrating Molecular and Environmental Data
4 Planetary Health: Integrating Diverse Environmental Data
5 Global Health: Integrating Diverse Health Data
6 Conclusions
References
A Critical Assessment of Exposures Integration in Exposome Research
1 Introduction
2 Context and Promises of the Exposome
2.1 Limits of the Traditional Approaches to Environmental Exposures
2.2 Diverse Definitions of the Exposome
2.3 A Common Core
2.4 What is Really New
3 The Expos-omic: The Centrality of the Internal Exposome
3.1 A Specific View of Precision: Centrality of the Omics Approach
3.2 Primarily "Expos-omic" Studies
3.3 Criticisms of the Reductionism of Expos-omic Research
4 What About the Most Integrative Perspectives?
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Airs, Waters, Places... and the Exposome: Steps Toward an Integrative Health
References
Articulating the Social and the Biological
The Turn Towards 'The Biosocial' in Epigenetics: Ontological, Epistemic and Socio-Political Considerations
1 Introduction
2 Biosocial Ontologies of the Living
3 Biosocial as Qualifier of Epistemic Practices
4 Biosocial as an Attribute of Socio-Political Strategies of Intervention
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Socio-Markers and Information Transmission
1 Bio-Markers and the Molecular Turn in the Health Sciences
2 The Concept of Socio-Marker
2.1 Social Factors as Proximate Causes
2.2 Social Determinants vs Socio-Markers
3 How to Trace Information Transmission with Bio- and Socio-Markers
3.1 Causal Production in the Processes of Health and Disease
3.2 The Concept of Information Transmission
4 Using Bio- and Socio-Markers
5 Conclusion
References
What's Wrong with the Biologization of Social Inequalities in Health? A History of Social Epidemiology and Its Moral Economy of Objectivity
1 Introduction
2 Walter Cannon and the Social Etiology of Disease
3 René Dubos: Stress and Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
4 John Cassel: Incarnating the Emotional Revolt Against Diseases
5 From Syme to Marmot: The Britannicization and the Internationalization of Social Epidemiology
6 Peter Sterling and Joseph Eyer: From Allostasis to Allostatic Overload
7 Discussion: Biologizing Social Inequalities in Health as a Specific Moral Economy of Objectivity
8 Conclusion
References
Integration in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological Issues
Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology
1 Introduction
2 The Many Faces of Integration: Why Data Integration Matters
3 The Exposome: Integrating Molecular and Environmental Data
4 Planetary Health: Integrating Diverse Environmental Data
5 Global Health: Integrating Diverse Health Data
6 Conclusions
References
A Critical Assessment of Exposures Integration in Exposome Research
1 Introduction
2 Context and Promises of the Exposome
2.1 Limits of the Traditional Approaches to Environmental Exposures
2.2 Diverse Definitions of the Exposome
2.3 A Common Core
2.4 What is Really New
3 The Expos-omic: The Centrality of the Internal Exposome
3.1 A Specific View of Precision: Centrality of the Omics Approach
3.2 Primarily "Expos-omic" Studies
3.3 Criticisms of the Reductionism of Expos-omic Research
4 What About the Most Integrative Perspectives?