Pickersgill Martyn
University of Edinburgh, UK,
Fam Relatsh Soc. 2014 Nov 1;3(3):481-484. doi: 10.1332/204674314X14110461422823.
Research in neuroscience and epigenetics is prominent in biomedicine and beyond. Some policy makers, health professionals and other citizens have intuited particular implications from these 'social biologies', leveraging them to support policies that many find problematic (e.g., around the early years). This enjoins scholarly attention to the uses to which science is put, but also to how and why biomedical knowledge comes to be imbued with certain kinds of salience (both by 'advocates' and by 'critics').
神经科学和表观遗传学的研究在生物医学及其他领域中十分突出。一些政策制定者、健康专业人士和其他公民已经从这些“社会生物学”中察觉到了特定的影响，并利用它们来支持许多人认为有问题的政策（例如在幼儿时期相关的政策）。这不仅要求学术界关注科学的应用方式，还要求关注生物医学知识如何以及为何会被赋予某些突出性（无论是被“倡导者”还是“批评者”）。
