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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dalton Conley , Kate W. Strully , Neil G. BennettPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520239555ISBN 10: 0520239555 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 08 October 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList 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 FiguresReviews"""In this engagingly written work on an important topic, the authors argue, quite convincingly, that the social and biological determinants and consequences of low birth weight have not been adequately explored by social scientists or natural/life scientists.""" In this engagingly written work on an important topic, the authors argue, quite convincingly, that the social and biological determinants and consequences of low birth weight have not been adequately explored by social scientists or natural/life scientists. Author InformationDalton 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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