Mal-Nutrition
Regular price
€38.99
A01=Emily Yates-Doerr
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Emily Yates-Doerr
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HD
Category=JBCC4
Category=JBSL
Category=JHMC
chronic malnutrition
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnography
food security
foreign aid
Guatemalan maternal health programs
inequality
Institute of Nutrition of Central American and Panama
Language_English
maternal and infant mortality
migration to America
nutrition programs
PA=Not yet available
poverty relief
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Forthcoming
softlaunch
USAID
Product details
- ISBN 9780520404427
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
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.
Emily Yates-Doerr is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University and author of The Weight of Obesity.
