The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest in the early life period, particularly for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research, to include ‘the preconception period.’ Recently, interest in this period has produced new kinds of trial communities …
The new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception cohorts
This article is part of the series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object
