Jan Baedke
Biographic Data
| ID | 459768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Baedke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Baedke |
| SIGNATURE | BAEDKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2138-785X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine
Population descriptors (PDs) in biomedicine, like race and ethnicity, suffer from two problems. They introduce explanations with low proportionality, which fail to capture relevant causal relations; and their usage is motivated by a focus on global instead of local health issues. Both problems amount to, what we call, the ‘missing locality challenge’ of PDs leading to epistemic biases and stereotypes against local communities. We introduce a new …
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered
In the past twenty years, conceptual and technological shifts in the life sciences have unseated the causal primacy of the gene. The picture emerging from 'postgenomic' science is one that emphasises multifactorial dependencies between the environment, development, and the genome, and blurs boundaries between biological individuals, and between the body and the environment. Despite the rejection of genetic determinism within postgenomics, forms o…
New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences
"This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond. During this period, various scientific disciplines underwent modernisation processes characterised by an increasing empirical inclination and a decline in the influence of metaphysics, the pluralisation of theories, and the historical and pragmatic revitalisat…
Where the social meets the biological: New ontologies of biosocial race
In recent years, postgenomic research, and the fields of epigenetics and microbiome science in particular, have described novel ways in which social processes of racialization can become embodied and result in physiological and health-related racial difference. This new conception of biosocial race has important implications for philosophical debates on the ontology of race. We argue that postgenomic research on race exhibits two key biases in th…
Where organisms meet the environment
Does the human microbiome tell us something about race
This paper critically discusses the increasing trend in human microbiome research to draw on the concept of race. This refers to the attempt to investigate the microbial profile of certain social and ethnic groups as embodied racial traits. Here, race is treated as a necessary category that helps in identifying and solving health challenges, like obesity and type-2 diabetes, in ‘western’ or indigenous populations with particular microbial charact…
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
From seconds to eons: Time scales, hierarchies, and processes in evo-devo
Model organisms in evo-devo: Promises and pitfalls of the comparative approach
The epigenetic landscape in the course of time: Conrad Hal Waddington’s methodological impact on the life sciences
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
Model organisms in evo-devo: Promises and pitfalls of the comparative approach
The epigenetic landscape in the course of time: Conrad Hal Waddington’s methodological impact on the life sciences
Where organisms meet the environment
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered
In the past twenty years, conceptual and technological shifts in the life sciences have unseated the causal primacy of the gene. The picture emerging from 'postgenomic' science is one that emphasises multifactorial dependencies between the environment, development, and the genome, and blurs boundaries between biological individuals, and between the body and the environment. Despite the rejection of genetic determinism within postgenomics, forms o…
Where the social meets the biological: New ontologies of biosocial race
In recent years, postgenomic research, and the fields of epigenetics and microbiome science in particular, have described novel ways in which social processes of racialization can become embodied and result in physiological and health-related racial difference. This new conception of biosocial race has important implications for philosophical debates on the ontology of race. We argue that postgenomic research on race exhibits two key biases in th…
From seconds to eons: Time scales, hierarchies, and processes in evo-devo
The epigenetic landscape in the course of time: Conrad Hal Waddington’s methodological impact on the life sciences
Model organisms in evo-devo: Promises and pitfalls of the comparative approach
From seconds to eons: Time scales, hierarchies, and processes in evo-devo
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
Does the human microbiome tell us something about race
This paper critically discusses the increasing trend in human microbiome research to draw on the concept of race. This refers to the attempt to investigate the microbial profile of certain social and ethnic groups as embodied racial traits. Here, race is treated as a necessary category that helps in identifying and solving health challenges, like obesity and type-2 diabetes, in ‘western’ or indigenous populations with particular microbial charact…
Where the social meets the biological: New ontologies of biosocial race
In recent years, postgenomic research, and the fields of epigenetics and microbiome science in particular, have described novel ways in which social processes of racialization can become embodied and result in physiological and health-related racial difference. This new conception of biosocial race has important implications for philosophical debates on the ontology of race. We argue that postgenomic research on race exhibits two key biases in th…
Where organisms meet the environment
New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences
"This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond. During this period, various scientific disciplines underwent modernisation processes characterised by an increasing empirical inclination and a decline in the influence of metaphysics, the pluralisation of theories, and the historical and pragmatic revitalisat…
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered
In the past twenty years, conceptual and technological shifts in the life sciences have unseated the causal primacy of the gene. The picture emerging from 'postgenomic' science is one that emphasises multifactorial dependencies between the environment, development, and the genome, and blurs boundaries between biological individuals, and between the body and the environment. Despite the rejection of genetic determinism within postgenomics, forms o…
From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine
Population descriptors (PDs) in biomedicine, like race and ethnicity, suffer from two problems. They introduce explanations with low proportionality, which fail to capture relevant causal relations; and their usage is motivated by a focus on global instead of local health issues. Both problems amount to, what we call, the ‘missing locality challenge’ of PDs leading to epistemic biases and stereotypes against local communities. We introduce a new …
Race, Genetics, and Society (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works)