Description
About the Author
MICHELLE PENTECOST is a physician-anthropologist and senior lecturer in global health and social medicine at King's College London.
Reviews
"This nuanced ethnography of South Africa's First 1000 Days program offers brilliant insights about how global health's long-standing obsession with maternal-child health is being reinvented under new scientific demands for epigenetic modeling and their temporal gymnastics in a place with a particularly fraught history of social injustice. Pentecost troubles the simplistic assessment of intervention success and failure by reminding readers of how recognition of a responsibility toward historic injury unveils the individualizing, situated, and justice-effacing effects of such programs."
- Vincanne Adams, editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
"The Politics of Potential examines a powerful new intervention that seeks to alter the future by tinkering with the present conditions of the unborn. Pentecost provides a riveting and at times dystopian account of how epigenetic interventions layer on to other global health interventions in disadvantaged communities in post-apartheid South Africa. From this laboratory of poverty, will it indeed be possible to finally break the cycle of violence and deprivation into which such communities seem locked?"
- Vinh-Kim Nguyen, author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
Book Information
ISBN 9781978837478
Author Michelle Pentecost
Format Paperback
Page Count 236
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 45g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm