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Birth Weight and Life Chances
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ISBN-13:
9780520937406
Veröffentl:
2003
Seiten:
268
Autor:
Dalton Conley
eBook Format:
PDF
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung
Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know—challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into adulthood in the form of health and developmental problems. Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequences—of precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equation—becomes especially tricky to sort out. This is the question thatThe Starting Gate takes up, bringing a novel perspective to the nature-nurture debate by using the starting point of birth as a lens to examine biological and social inheritance.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. The Baby or the Egg? Birth Weight and the Gene-Environment Divide
2. John Henry, Black Mayors, and Silver Spoons: Race and the Inheritance of Birth Weight
3. What Money Can and Can’t Buy: Income and Infant Health
4. Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight, Infant Mortality, and Educational Achievement
5. Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Policy Implications
Appendix A: Data, Variables, and Methods
Appendix B: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Figures
Acknowledgments
1. The Baby or the Egg? Birth Weight and the Gene-Environment Divide
2. John Henry, Black Mayors, and Silver Spoons: Race and the Inheritance of Birth Weight
3. What Money Can and Can’t Buy: Income and Infant Health
4. Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight, Infant Mortality, and Educational Achievement
5. Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Policy Implications
Appendix A: Data, Variables, and Methods
Appendix B: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Figures
Schlagwörter zu:
The Starting Gate von Dalton Conley - mit der ISBN: 9780520937406
american babies; biological determinants; biological factors; biology; birth rates; birth weight; family; health care workers; hospitals; infant lives; life expectancy; life scientists; low birth weight; mortality rates; natural sciences; new parents; newborn babies; newborn health; nonfiction; scientific study; social consequences; social impacts; social science; social scientists; students and teachers; textbooks; underweight babies; united states, Online-Buchhandlung
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