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 …

The aetiologies of obesity and type 2 diabetes are incredibly complex, but the potential role
of paternal influences remains relatively understudied. A better understanding of paternal …

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with
findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging …

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of
the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases …

In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new
development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and …

Epigenetics is one of the most rapidly expanding fields in the life sciences. Its rise is
frequently framed as a revolutionary turn that heralds a new epoch both for gene-based …

Research on the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) has traditionally
focused on how maternal exposures around the time of pregnancy might influence offspring …

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes,
and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped …

In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life-
sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social …

In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins.
Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood …