| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Critical Environments : Nature, Science and Politics ; 9 |
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Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 9.
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| Contents |
Introduction : weighing the future -- Epistemic environments : reproducing solutions to past, present, and future maternal health -- Un/altered : the durability of individual lifestyle interventions -- Prospecting pregnancies : fatness, race, and risk in shaping the politics of clinical trial recruitment -- Pregnant narratives : the postgenomic reproductive politics of lifestyle interventions -- Environmental animations : what counts as the maternal environment? -- Pregnant biobits : data, time, and speculative value -- Conclusion : the afterbirth of foreclosure -- Epilogue : [the future] is composed of nows |
| Summary |
"Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression and has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale pregnancy studies draw on epigenetics to connect pregnant women's behavioral choices, like diet and exercise, to future health risks for unborn babies. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2021) |
| Subject |
Clinical trials -- Social aspects -- United States
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Clinical trials -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Clinical trials -- Political aspects -- United States
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Clinical trials -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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Pregnant women -- United States -- Case studies
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Pregnant women -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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Epigenetics -- United States
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Epigenetics -- Great Britain
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Human reproduction -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Human reproduction -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth.
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Epigenetics
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Pregnant women
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021021913 |
| ISBN |
9780520380158 |
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0520380150 |
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