Author: Sahra Gibbon

Becoming Intergenerational in Birth Cohorts: kinship and the remaking of participation

Post author Sahra Gibbon and Rosie Mathers
Post date March 18, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

In recent years birth cohorts have become an invaluable context, resource, tool and ‘technology’ of an emerging terrain of biosocial science, given the unique opportunity they provide to study how the life course is intergenerationally shaped. As many contributors for this series have highlighted, the what and how of biological and social transmission between kin are of central concern in …

Tags Birth cohorts, Intergenerational, Longitudinal studies, Maternal Health, uk

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Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention

This article is part of the following series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

Longitudinal birth cohorts are increasingly recognised as important for understanding how biological, social and environmental processes interact over time and contribute to health inequalities. Birth cohorts have also become part of global assemblages of knowledge production, particularly in the field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD, Gluckman et al. 2016), and act as important technologies of evidence …