Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments Beyond Determinism

Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Introduction
	Projection
	Health environment
	Scale
	Synergies
	Beyond determinism
	References
Chapter 1 Permeable Bodies and Environmental Delineation
	Traumatised environments
	Behavioural epigenetics
	The reactive genome
	Sculpting the genome
	The epigenetic explosion
	The embodiment of trauma
	Epigenetics and miniaturised environments
	Agent Orange: Lasting effects in time and space
	Food as environment
	Eliminating stunting
	Toxic living
	The intergenerational transmission of toxins
	Social isolation
	Colonisation and historical trauma
	Conclusions
Chapter 2 Situating Biologies: Studying Human Differentiation as Material-Semiotic Practice
	Introduction: Differences in anthropology and biology
	Molecular biology of social position
	Life scientific perspectives: Treating culture as nature
	Social scientific perspectives: Narrating the body
	Situating biologies: Differentiation as material-semiotic practice
	In conclusion: Appreciating biological regularities
Chapter 3 Pig–Human Relations in Neonatology: Knowing and Unknowing in a Multi-Species Collaborative
	Translating pigs into human health
	Imagining and claiming pigs as resources for health
	Making resources in the laboratory
	Bringing the pig-based resources out of the laboratory
	Managing resources in the NICU
	Knowing and unknowing in translational medicine
	Coda
Chapter 4 Anthropology’s End to Biodeterminism: A New Sociobiology
	Sociobiology reconsidered
	Darwin and stable change
	Selfish genes?
	Bio-prejudice and biodeterminism: The diabetes example
	A new ontology
Chapter 5 Tribes without Rulers: Bacteria Life in the Human Holobiont
	Part One: The cell state
	Part Two: Bacterial society
	Part Three: Biofilms
	Part Four: The human microbiome
	Part Five: Bacteria’s brain
	Part Six: The social life of enteric bacteria
	Conclusion: A question and less-than-satisfactory answer
Chapter 6 Biosocial Dynamics of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Bacterial Perspective
	Increasing access to medicines
	Phages
	TB control in India
	Contamination and configuration: TB treatment as an epidemic
	Configuring the spread of TB treatment
	Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in India
	Resistance-driven technologies
	Between nature and culture
Chapter 7 When Sickness Comes in Multiples: Co-morbidity in Botswana
	Introduction: Situations of complexity
	Botswana’s epidemiology of co-infection
	Tuberculosis: The colonial epidemic
	HIV/AIDS: The epidemic of national existential emergency
	Cancer: The emerging epidemic
	Receiving a differential diagnosis
	Clinical intelligibility
	Living and dying with co-infection
	Provisional conclusions
Chapter 8 Legacies of Violence: The Communicability of Spirits and Trauma in Northern Uganda
	Studying legacies of violence
	Cen: The ghosts of the resentful dead
	Trauma and its treatment
	The co-existence of cen and trauma
	Co-morbidity and syndemics
	A syndemic of problems
Chapter 9 Extinction and Time amid Climate Change or What is a Horizon?
	Crossing points of no return
	On the nature of ‘catastrophic’ forms
	Navigating non-parametric worlds
	Horizoning work
	Biodeterminisms versus ‘remote futures’
Afterword:
	Do the new sciences of plasticity lead natural science practitioners toward the insights of anthropology?
	Might anthropological fieldwork on scientific turf raise problems already inside science and thus subject to prior engagement across the disciplines?
	What anthropological findings push the new sciences into open dialogue?
	How is anthropology changing – and changing its scientific interlocutors?
	What’s ahead for ‘bioindeterminism?’
Index