Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research
Epistemological and Practical Issues
| Auflage | 1. Auflage, 2023 |
| Verlag | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN | 303128433X |
Produktbeschreibung
Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a post-genomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to biology and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies.
This book takes a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a balanced combination of theoretical and practical approaches and is edited by scholars from a multi-disciplinary backgrounds- (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.
Elodie Giroux is Professor of philosophy of medicine at the philosophy department of Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University. Her research interests focus on the history of risk factor epidemiology, philosophy of epidemiology, causation in medicine and public health, health and disease concepts, and more recently precision medicine and integrative research in environmental health and exposomics.
Francesca Merlin is Permanent research fellow in philosophy of biology at CNRS. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 2009). Her research focuses on central concepts in biology such as chance and probability, inheritance and epigenetics, in particular in the context of evolutionary theory. She currently works on a new interdisciplinary research project on the concept of environment in the study of environmentally induced diseases, both in life sciences and in social sciences (EnviroBioSoc ANR project). Since 2018, she is President of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS). In 2019, she received the CNRS Bronze Medal.
Yohan Fayet holds a PhD in Geography (Lyon 3 University, 2014) and is research project manager in Human and Social Sciences at the Léon Bérard Center in Lyon. He is interested in the analysis of spatial inequalities in health, through the multiple impact of physical, social and medical environments on health outcomes. He focuses on spatial inequalities in cancer and analyses potential challenges raised by innovations in oncology. He published a nationwide geographical classification in France to measure spatial inequalities in health (International Journal of Health Geographics, 2021) and works on potential actions to reduce it, such as the reference networks organization.