Abstract
The boundaries between sociology and biology have long been sites of tension and contestation (Anderson 1967; Pescosolido 2006).¹ In part, these contestations emerge from a concern that biological accounts of the production of human difference pose a threat to sociology’s defining focus on social and environmental causes of human health and social outcomes (Duster 2006). Medical sociologists have been at the vanguard of efforts to find productive modes of engagement between the social sciences and contemporary human genetics. Increasingly, these efforts center on gene-environment interaction. We consider here two domains of social scientific inquiry that address gene-environment interaction vis-à-vis health