The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances - Couverture souple

Conley, Dalton; Bennett, Neil G; Strully, Kate Wetteroth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520239555 ISBN 13 : 9780520239555

Editeur : University of California Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 that The 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dalton Conley is Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at NYU; he is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Kate W. Strully is a doctoral candidate at New York University. Neil G. Bennett is Professor at the Baruch School of Public Affairs and in the Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520239555
• ISBN 13: 9780520239555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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