just reading a book here on Biosocial surveys that should be on the bedside of people working in the interaction between social science and biology
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11939
the authors make a strong case for the integration of bio-markers in to social surveys and there are some excellent chapters on the various issues involved
Some highlights worth checking out
- discussion of bio-markers in the Longitudinal Study of Ageing Danish Twins
- the Danish 1905 study
- a chapter on the Whitehall II and ELSA studies
- a chapter on the Taiwan bio-marker study
- a chapter on bio-markers in the hrs
there are some nice discussions of ethical and practical issues in collecting bio-markers. there are also dedicated chapters on nutrigenomics and epigenomics and specific discussions of how genetic data can be used in IV formats in econometrics. there is also a really useful discussion of the main candidate genes that are useful to screen for in social surveys. there are also extremely useful discussions of the main uses of blood bio-markers in social surveys. it gives some very condensed and useful descriptions of why specific markers such as Interleukin 6 levels are interesting and what they are used for.
in short, this covers most of the things that people working in this area would be interested in. it should be read in conjunction with a previous volume called Cells and Surveys.
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