The Handbook of DOHaD and Society

Michelle Pentecost is a physician-anthropologist based in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London and in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa (2024, Rutgers University Press). Jaya Keaney is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her work in feminist science studies explores how reproduction is shaped by technoscientific practices and regimes of race, gender, sexuality and coloniality. She is the author of Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling (2023, Duke University Press). Tessa Moll is a medical anthropologist in South Africa. Her work explores the possibilities of life-making and life-sustaining that arise from new technologies and new knowledges of reproduction. She is currently completing her first book, a monograph on reproductive politics, fertility care, and race in the afterlife of apartheid. Michael Penkler is a medical sociologist and science and technology studies (STS) scholar based at the University of Applied Sciences, Wiener Neustadt, Austria. His work explores the social, ethical and political aspects and implications of life science innovations, biomedical technologies, and healthcare.

Introduction: Michael Penkler, Tessa Moll, Jaya Keaney and Michelle Pentecost; Part I. Mapping the Field's Past: 1. Porous bodies, impressible mothers: a global and longue durée perspective Maurizio Meloni and Natasha Rooney; 2. Transformations of the maternal-fetal relationship in the twentieth century: from maternal impressions to epigenetic states Tatjana Buklijas; 3. The first 5000 days: making DOHaD, 1989–2003 Mark Hanson and Tatjana Buklijas; Part II. The Social Life of DOHaD: 4. A biosocial return to race? Racial differences in DOHaD and environmental epigenetics Maurizio Meloni, Christopher Kuzawa, Ayuba Issaka and Tessa Moll; 5. The promise and treachery of nutrition in DOHaD: science, biopolitics, and gender Vivienne Moore and Megan Warin; 6. Gender, racism and DOHaD Natali Valdez and Martine Lappé; 7. DOHaD in economics: orthodox and egalitarian approaches Jennifer Cohen; 8. The 'moral paradox' of DOHaD Luca Chiapperino, Cindy Gerber, Francesco Panese and Umberto Simeoni; 9. Intergenerational justice, law and DOHaD Isabel Karpin; Part III. Key Concepts for Biosocial Research: 10. Lifecourse Mark Tomlinson, Amelia van der Merwe, Marguerite Marlow and Sarah Skeen; 11. Syndemics Edna Bosire, Michelle Pentecost and Emily Mendenhall; 12. Embodiment Ziyanda Majombozi and Mutsawashe Mutendi; 13. Causal crypticity Sarah S. Richardson; 14. Intergenerational trauma Jaya Keaney, Henrietta Byrne, Megan Warin and Emma Kowal; 15. Bioethnography Elizabeth F. S. Roberts, Jaclyn M. Goodrich, Erica C. Jansen, Belinda L. Needham, Brisa N. Sánchez and Martha M. Téllez Rojo; Part IV. Translations in Policy and Practice: 16. Translating evidence to policy: the challenge for DOHaD advocacy Felicia Low, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson; 17. Framing DOHaD for policy and society Chandni Maria Jacob, Michael Penkler, Ruth Muller and Mark Hanson; 18. The impact of community based participatory DOHaD research Siobhan Tu'akoi, Mark H. Vickers, Celeste Barrett-Watson, Kura Samuel-Ioane, Teaukura Puna, Joseph Drollet and Jacqui L. Bay; 19. The first 1000 Days and clinical practice in infant mental health Anusha Lachman, Astrid Berg, Fiona C. Ross and Simone M. Peters; Part V. The Biosocial in Practice: 20. Understanding child development: a biosocial anthropological approach to early life Emily H. Emmott and Sahra Gibbon; 21. Building biosocial collaboration in the HeLTI-South Africa trial Michelle Pentecost, Catherine E Draper, Khuthala Mabetha, Larske M Soepnel and Shane A Norris; 22. Doing environments in DOHaD and epigenetics Sophia Rossmann and Georgia Samaras; 23. Narrative choreographies: DOHaD, social justice and health equity Martha Kenney and Ruth Müller; 24. Interdependence: reworking ontogeny through fishbones and dirty chickens Shivani Kaul and Emily Yates-Doerr; Part VI. Future Directions: 25. Modelling in DOHaD: challenges and opportunities in the era of big data Julie Sigurdardottir and Salma Ayis; 26. The promise of reversibility in neuroepigenetics research on traumatic memories Stephanie Lloyd, Pierre-Eric Lutz and Chani Bonventre; 27. Disability in DOHaD and epigenetics: towards inclusive practice Katie Saulnier, Lara Azevedo, Neera Bhatia, Lillian Dipnall, Evie Kendal, Garth Stephenson and Jeffrey M Craig; 28. Creating good data our way: an Indigenous lens for epidemiology and intergenerational health Sarah Bourke and Raymond Lovett; 29. DOHaD in the Anthropocene: taking responsibility for anthropogenic biologies Jörg Niewöhner.