The Maternal Imprint
The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
Publication supported by the Susan Elizabeth Abrams Fund in History of Science
376 pages
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22 halftones, 2 tables
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6 x 9
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
1. Introduction: The Maternal Imprint
2. Sex Equality in Heredity
3. Prenatal Culture
4. Germ Plasm Hygiene
5. Maternal Effects
6. Race, Birth Weight, and the Biosocial Body
7. Fetal Programming
8. It’s the Mother!
9. Epilogue: Gender and Heredity in the Postgenomic Moment
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
2. Sex Equality in Heredity
3. Prenatal Culture
4. Germ Plasm Hygiene
5. Maternal Effects
6. Race, Birth Weight, and the Biosocial Body
7. Fetal Programming
8. It’s the Mother!
9. Epilogue: Gender and Heredity in the Postgenomic Moment
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
Review Quotes
Rayna Rapp, New York University
"A rich, elegantly argued analysis of the long history of scientific and popular thinking about 'maternal effects' on the fetuses that women gestate, full of well-articulated plunges into the archives of scientific texts and journals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important, beautifully researched, and well-written book by an author whose prior works have literally changed their fields."
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