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Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm

Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm

Yates-Doerr, Emily

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AnthropologyAgricultureGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520404424
ISBN13: 9780520404427
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Mal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy--called the first 1,000 days of life--determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.

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