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Ingrid / Julien Voléry
Ingrid Voléry is full professor of sociology at the Université de Lorraine and member of Laboratoire Lorrain de Sciences Sociales (2L2S).
Marie-Pierre Julien is lecturer of sociology and anthropology at the Université de Lorraine and member of 2L2S.
Marie-Pierre Julien is lecturer of sociology and anthropology at the Université de Lorraine and member of 2L2S.
From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing
This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of view and demonstrates the central role of the measurement of the body for political purposes.