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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ;
9. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.