From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing

Assessing the Human

Ingrid Voléry, Marie-Pierre Julien (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2020 | 2020 ed.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
9789811575815 (ISBN)

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This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of view and demonstrates the central role of the measurement of the body for political purposes. By studying categorizations of race, age and quality of life between the 19th and 20th century, the first part of the book highlights how human body measurements extend from the flesh to subjective experience. The second part shows how genomic correction and life support technologies reshape the frontiers between things, humans and social subjects. The final part reveals how contemporary measurements of age, race and disease gave rise to new hierarchies between human beings and social groups. The book concludes by considering different styles of measuring the body and their ontological consequences.

Ingrid Voléry is full professor of sociology at the Université de Lorraine and member of Laboratoire Lorrain de Sciences Sociales (2L2S). Marie-Pierre Julien is lecturer of sociology and anthropology at the Université de Lorraine and member of 2L2S.

Chapter 1: Introduction: What measuring means.- Part I. The Measurements of the human body between the 19th and the 20th century: from the flesh to the subjectivity.- Chapter 2: Producing Otherness Through Resemblance. Bodily orifices and the measuring of the human (1800-1860).- Chapter 3: Talking Bones: age in 19th-century forensic handbooks (1813-1906).- Chapter 4: Thinking “quality of life”: from measures to categorizations of the human beings.- Part II. Between objectivization and subjectivization: How forensic identification, genomic correction and life support technologies reshape the frontiers between things, human person and social subject.- Chapter 5: Being born in the era of genomics.- Chapter 6: From “technicized” bodies to body technologies: the human in resuscitative care, between objectivization and subjectivization.- Part III. Measurement and the Rise of New Hierarchies between human beings.- Chapter 7: Bone Geopolitics. Bone Age and the Racialization of Growth in UK and US Pediatrics (1940-1980).- Chapter 8: Models of corporeality and controversies around puberty.- Chapter 9: Everyone for himself and all together? Thinking “race” between social science, epidemiology, and medicine.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Measurement as an ontological scalpel.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Health, Technology and Society
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 282 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Biotechnologies • classification of living beings • measuring bodies • medical and identification devices • social construction of the human being • the person and the subject
ISBN-13	9789811575815 / 9789811575815
Zustand	Neuware