Trois formes contemporaines de biologisation du social

Abstract

Since the second half of the 1960’s, some points of view about social and cultural issues inspired by biology have reappeared in the public sphere, aimed at a -growing number of people. This paper proposes a typology of these various forms of “biologization” according to the French example.

Keywords

• science and society
• biology and society
• biologism
• biology and sociology
• medicalization
• biopolitics