Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (New Human Frontiers). Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016, 176 pp.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Suparna Choudhury Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Secure Lives: The Meaning and Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care. Annie Bartlett, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 400 pp.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Carolyn Sufrin Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Conceptions: Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India. Aditya Bharadwaj, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, 312 pp.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Daisy Deomampo Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience. Des Fitzgerald, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, 226 pp.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Josh Reno Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic. Gareth M. Thomas, London: Routledge, 2017, 199 pp.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic. Gareth M. Thomas, London: Routledge, 2017, 199 pp.
(Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lauren Jade Martin Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
The Redistribution of Reproductive Responsibility: On the Epigenetics of “Environment” in Prenatal Interventions
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Redistribution of Reproductive Responsibility: On the Epigenetics of “Environment” in Prenatal Interventions
This article focuses on two ongoing clinical trials—one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom—that have used epigenetics as the conceptual basis for testing the relationship between nutrition and obesity during pregnancy. Drawing on ethnographic research, I highlight the different ways that clinical scientists interpret epigenetics to target particular domains of the environment for prenatal intervention. Here I examine three environmental domains: the pregnant body, the home, and everyday experiences. In so doing, I show how different scientific approaches to epigenetics multiply concepts of “the enviro...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Natali Valdez Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
