What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and
cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This …

Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This
cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or …

Social scientists have placed particularly high expectations on the study of epigenomics to
explain how exposure to adverse social factors like poverty, child maltreatment and racism …

Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand
and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask …

Leading gender and science scholar Sarah S. Richardson charts the untold history of the
idea that a woman's health and behavior during pregnancy can have long-term effects on …

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 …

The research field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) provides a
framework for understanding how a wide range of environmental factors, such as …

Some Indigenous Australians have embraced developmental origins of health and disease
(DOHaD) and epigenetic discourses to highlight the legacies of slow violence in a settler …

Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and
connect to others. In recent years," fat" has emerged as a shared anchor in defining who …