Thinking through the ‘Biosocial’: Rhythmic Reflections in Pandemic Times

By Simon Williams, Catherine M. Coveney and Robert Meadows

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

Much has been written of late on the ‘biosocial’ in the social sciences and humanities — see for example Ingold (2013), Meloni et al (2016), Lloyd and Muller (2018) — including postings in Somatosphere (Béhague 2020; Meloni 2014). In part this stems from the limits of ‘representational’ approaches and a need to marry the biological and social …

Lectures

November 14, 2019

Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention

By Sahra Gibbon and Michelle Pentecost

This article is part of the series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

Longitudinal birth cohorts are increasingly recognised as important for understanding how biological, social and environmental processes interact over time and contribute to health inequalities. Birth cohorts have also become part of global assemblages of knowledge production, particularly in the field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD, Gluckman et al. 2016), and act as important technologies of evidence …

Somatosphere

Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics.

Tag Archives: Biosocial

Thinking through the ‘Biosocial’: Rhythmic Reflections in Pandemic Times

Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention