Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm

by Emily Yates-Doerr

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520404424
• ISBN13: 9780520404427
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"