Book ID: CBB961294836

Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era (2021)

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Natali Valdez (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 284
Language: English

Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations. 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. Natali Valdez argues that a focus on individual behavior rather than social environments ignores the vital impacts of systemic racism. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are intimately 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.

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Review Susanne Schmidt (2023) Review of "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 189-192). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Natalie Lira
Almeling, Rene
Chanoff, David
Chen-I. Kuan
Jacqueline D. Antonovich
Evans, Jazmin Antwynette
Concepts
Medicine and race
Medicine and politics
Racism
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Reproductive medicine
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
South Africa
North America
Germany
Institutions
Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS)
University of the Witwatersrand
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