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Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies.
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.
List of contents
PART 1: Articulating the social and the biological.- Chapter 1: The turn towards 'the biosocial' in epigenetics. Ontological, epistemic and socio-political considerations.- Chapter 2: Socio-markers and the trace of information transmission.- Chapter 3: What's Wrong with the Biologization of Social Inequalities in Health? A history of social epidemiology and its moral economy of objectivity.- Part 2: Integration in environmental health and exposome research: epistemological issues.- Chapter 4: Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology.- Chapter 5: A Critical Assessment of Exposures Integration in Exposome Research.- Chapter 6: From exposome to pathogenic niche. Looking for an operational account of the environment in health studies.- PART 3: The case of exposome research: practical and disciplinary issues.- Chapter 7: Place of integrative approaches in the study of spatial dimension of health outcomes.- Chapter 8: Exposome and the social sciences: the case of systemic diseases.- Chapter 9: The exposome research program and nutrition: the example of celiac disease.
