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  • The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
  • 作者:SARAH S. RICHARDSON
  • 出版社代理人:University of Chicago Press(美国)
  • 出版时间:2021年11月
  • 页数:376页包括黑白插图
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内容介绍



*本书由Susan Elizabeth Abrams Fund in History of Science赞助出版


作者Sarah S. Richardson是一位世界顶级的性别科学学者。她在这本书中探讨了一个拥有长久历史的概念:一位女性在孕期间的健康以及醒悟可以直接影响到孩子未来的心身灵健康,而且是拥有长久影响力。


不论是哪个文化或者时代,都对母亲在孕期间就开始留给胎儿生物上的元素有过这种想法,这也是科学社区里长久来在探讨的现象。这代表孕期间的母亲的生理及心理健康有多麽重要。從20 世紀带来現代遺傳學的出現,生物医学科学家驳斥了任何认为母亲(除非极度贫困或受伤的情况)可以改变后代特征的观念。共识断言,孩子的命运是由其基因和出生后的成长共同决定的。


然而,在过去的 50 年里,这种共识被打破了。今天,关于宫内环境及其对胎儿影响的研究正在成为医学、公共卫生、心理学、进化生物学和基因组学领域的一项强有力的研究计划。这些科学认为女性的经历、行为和生理机能会对后代的发育产生改变人生的影响。追溯有关遗传和母胎效应的思想谱系,这本书对当今后基因组生物学中表观遗传学和胎儿起源科学的惊人兴起所引发的概念和伦理问题进行了批判性分析。




Over the last fifty years, however, this consensus was dismantled, and today, research on the intrauterine environment and its effects on the fetus is emerging as a robust program of study in medicine, public health, psychology, evolutionary biology, and genomics. Collectively, these sciences argue that a woman’s experiences, behaviors, and physiology can have life-altering effects on offspring development. Tracing a genealogy of ideas about heredity and maternal-fetal effects, The Maternal Imprint offers a critical analysis of conceptual and ethical issues provoked by the striking rise of epigenetics and fetal origins science in postgenomic biology today.


目录:

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


好评:

"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."-- Rayna Rapp, New York University



"Richardson provides a detailed historical and sociological narrative, spanning the period from pre-Weismann concepts of heritability to modern day epigenetics. Although Weismann's work paved the way for the Modern Synthesis, its emphasis on a disposable soma led him to challenge the very legitimacy of research into maternal influences and prenatal culture. Modern epigenetics research appears to address this challenge. Richardson's gender analysis of peer-reviewed science reveals that epigenetics is not just the newest cutting-edge, pro-social, plasticity-favoring, anti-genetic, and anti-reductionist field to emerge from modern molecular genetics. Rather, it is also the vector of newly problematic images and social roles that limit women and diminish the status of pregnancy and motherhood, in ways that are disturbingly similar to nineteenth-century societal notions of women's roles. Richardson's exquisitely documented arguments are of compelling interest to all with an interest in the complex interface of science and society."-- Michael J. Wade, Indiana University


"A fascinating work of research, synthesis, and analysis, The Maternal Imprint traces the contested modern history of maternal effects science from the early theories of fixed heredity to the contemporary field of epigenetics. This is a major contribution from a feminist STS scholar who deftly interweaves scientific, epistemological, and ethical considerations into a tour-de-force book on a topic with implications for mothers, families, and communities."-- Alexandra Minna Stern, author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America




关于作者:

Sarah S. Richardson 是哈佛大学科学史和女性、性别和性研究的教授。她是哈佛性别科学实验室的负责人。