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Epigenetics and Obesity The Reproduction of Habitus through Intracellular and Social Environments
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It is suggested that the enfolding and reproduction of social life that Bourdieu articulated as habitus is a useful theoretical frame that can be enhanced to critically develop epigenetic understandings of obesity, and vice versa.Abstract:
Bourdieu suggested that the habitus contains the ‘genetic information’ which both allows and disposes successive generations to reproduce the world they inherit from their parents’ generation. Whil...read more
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