Social epigenetics explores relationships between social factors and health inequities
embodied at the molecular level. Through modulating gene expression, epigenetic changes …

This article describes ethnography as a research method and outlines how it excels in
capturing the salient experiences of individuals among diverse communities in their own …

Investigating biologically plausible mechanisms for the embodiment of context is a key
thoroughfare for progressing health geographies of place. Expanding knowledge of bio …

Social epigenomics has emerged as an integrative field of research focused on identification
of socio-environmental factors, their influence on human biology through epigenomic …

Objective We systematically review the literature on social epigenetics, examining how
empirical research to date has conceptualized and operationalized social determinants of …

The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of
Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …

This article describes both sociological and genetic theories of illness causation and derives
propositions expected under each and under a transdisciplinary theoretical frame. The …

The emergent field of environmental epigenetics, which studies health effects of
'xenobiotic'chemicals, fundamentally challenges standard models of the biochemical …

This article develops the concept of epigenomic stories to analyze how scientists describe
and study the relationships between environmental epigenetics, health inequities, and …

The boundaries between sociology and biology causation, including the “looping
effects”(Hackhave long been sites of tension and contestation ing 1995) of genetic …