From society to cells and back again: new opportunities for discovery at the biosocial interface

Thomas W. McDade; Kathleen Mullan Harris

doi:10.1007/s44155-022-00007-z

From society to cells and back again: new opportunities for discovery at the biosocial interface

Thomas W. McDade^*, Kathleen Mullan Harris

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A new generation of community- and population-based research is combining measures of social context, experience, and behavior with direct measures of physiology, gene sequence and function, and health. Studies drawing on models and methods from the social and biological sciences have the potential to illuminate the multilevel mechanisms through which experience becomes biology, and to move past decontextualized and reductionistic approaches to human development, behavior, and health. In this perspective we highlight challenges and opportunities at the biosocial interface, and briefly discuss COVID-19 as a case study demonstrating the importance of linking across levels of analysis.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	4
Journal	Discover Social Science and Health
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-022-00007-z
State	Published - Dec 2022

Keywords

Biosocial
Health disparities
Human development
Interdisciplinary
Life course

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Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Health(social science)
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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