The First Thousand Days: Motherhood, Scientific Knowledge and Local Histories

TY - JOUR

T1 - The First Thousand Days

T2 - Motherhood, Scientific Knowledge and Local Histories

AU - Pentecost, Michelle

AU - Ross, Fiona

PY - 2019/11/17

Y1 - 2019/11/17

N2 - Since 2013, South African nutrition policy focuses on “the first thousand days,” (conception to two years), informed by Developmental Origins of Health and Disease research. Drawing on ethnographic research, we show how policy foregrounds certain categories of persons and casts “the maternal” as a time frame for interventions to secure future health and argue that this constitutes a “knowledge effect” – the outcome of framing questions in a particular way and with specific knowledge horizons.

AB - Since 2013, South African nutrition policy focuses on “the first thousand days,” (conception to two years), informed by Developmental Origins of Health and Disease research. Drawing on ethnographic research, we show how policy foregrounds certain categories of persons and casts “the maternal” as a time frame for interventions to secure future health and argue that this constitutes a “knowledge effect” – the outcome of framing questions in a particular way and with specific knowledge horizons.

KW - DOHaD

KW - HIV

KW - South Africa

KW - epigenetics

KW - first 1000 days

KW - futures

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063888343&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2019.1590825

DO - 10.1080/01459740.2019.1590825

M3 - Article

SN - 1545-5882

VL - 38

SP - 747

EP - 761

JO - Medical Anthropology

JF - Medical Anthropology

IS - 8

ER -