{"product_id":"weighing-the-future-race-science-and-pregnancy-trials-in-the-postgenomic-era-9780520380134","title":"Weighing the Future  Race Science and Pregnancy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpigenetics, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A ground-breaking book, both subtle and razor-sharp in its analysis. It provides an immensely valuable critique of the workings of epigenetic foreclosure in pregnancy trials.\" * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Weighing the Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Part I\u003cbr\u003e 1. Epistemic Environments: Reproducing Solutions\u003cbr\u003e    to Past, Present, and Future Maternal Health\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Un\/Altered: The Durability of Individualized\u003cbr\u003e    Interventions for Multidimensional Illness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Part II\u003cbr\u003e 3. Politics of Recruitment: How Fatness, Race,\u003cbr\u003e    and Risk Shape Contemporary Pregnancy Trials\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Pregnant Narratives: Experiencing Lifestyle\u003cbr\u003e    Interventions\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Part III\u003cbr\u003e 5. Environmental Animations: What Counts\u003cbr\u003e    as the Maternal Environment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Prospecting Pregnancies: Data, Time,\u003cbr\u003e    and Speculative Value\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion: The Afterbirth of Foreclosure\u003cbr\u003e    Epilogue: [The Future] Is Composed of Nows\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Notes\u003cbr\u003e    References\u003cbr\u003e    Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402949075287,"sku":"9780520380134","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520380134.jpg?v=1730481940","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/weighing-the-future-race-science-and-pregnancy-trials-in-the-postgenomic-era-9780520380134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}