Author: Elizabeth Holdsworth

Elizabeth Holdsworth is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the State University of New York, University at Albany. She is a biocultural anthropologist with research interests in psychosocial influences on early life and prenatal development. Her past work has focused on how sociocultural stressors are embodied and transmitted to future generations through prenatal and early postnatal influences on physical development. She also explores how biological outcomes, particularly prenatal developmental variation, are interpreted and disseminated to the public, particularly in clinical practice.

Elizabeth Holdsworth

GENDER AND GENETICS: SOCIOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL

February, 2017 / By Elizabeth Holdsworth

Within the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining […]