Debating Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health, Medicine and Society Book

	Contributors
	Introduction: Debating biology	1
1	Evolution and human disease: Bridging the biology/culture gap	15
2	Ultra-Darwinism and health: The limits to evolutionary psychology	27
3	Shaping biology: Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'	39
4	Realist agendas on biology, health and medicine: Some thoughts and reflections	53
5	Biology, social class and inequalities in health: Their synthesis in 'health capital'	69
6	Gender and health status: Does biology matter?	84
7	Ethnicity and health: Biological and social inheritance	96
8	The 'biological clock'? Ageing, health and the body across the lifecourse	109
9	The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture	123
10	Childhood bodies: Constructionism and beyond	133
11	Hormonal bodies, civilized bodies: Incorporating the biological into the sociology of health	145
12	Incorporating the biological: Chronic illness, bodies, selves, and the material world	157
13	'Liminal' bodies? Sleep, death and dying	169
14	Investing in mothering: Reproduction, sex selective technologies and biological capital in an Indian case study	185
15	Rights, risks and responsibilities: New genetics and disabled people	198
16	A normal biological process? Brittle bones, HRT and the patient-doctor encounter	210
17	Enhancing biology? Cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation	223
18	Through the lenses of biology and sociology: Organ replacement	235
19	Prozac nation and the biochemical self: A critique	245
20	The bioethics of biotechnology: Alternative claims of posthuman futures	261
21	Biology, vulnerability and politics	271
22	Ecology, health and society: A red-green perspective	283
23	A metaphysics for alternative medicine: 'Translating' the social and biological worlds	298
	Index	311