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Weighing the future : race, science, and pregnancy trials in the postgenomic era /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.