scholarly journals “Mombrain and Sticky DNA”: The Impacts of Neurobiological and Epigenetic Framings of Motherhood on Women's Subjectivities

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Olivia Norrmén-Smith ◽  
Ana Gómez-Carrillo ◽  
Suparna Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Style Of Thought ◽  
Epigenetic Research

The fields of epigenetics and neuroscience have come to occupy a significant place in individual and public life in biomedicalized societies. Social scientists have argued that the primacy and popularization of the “neuro” has begun to shape how patients and other lay people experience themselves and their lifeworlds in increasingly neurological and genetic terms. Pregnant women and new mothers have become an important new target for cutting edge neuroscientific and epigenetic research, with the Internet constituting a highly active space for engagement with knowledge translations. In this paper, we analyze the reception by women in North America of translations of nascent epigenetic and neuroscientific research. We conducted three focus groups with pregnant women and new mothers. The study was informed by a prior scoping investigation of online content. Our focus group findings record how engagement with translations of epigenetic and neuroscientific research impact women's perinatal experience, wellbeing, and self-construal. Three themes emerged in our analysis: (1) A kind of brain; (2) The looping effects of biomedical narratives; (3) Imprints of past experience and the management of the future. This data reveals how mothers engage with the neurobiological style-of-thought increasingly characteristic of public health and popular science messaging around pregnancy and motherhood. Through the molecularization of pregnancy and child development, a typical passage of life becomes saturated with “susceptibility,” “risk,” and the imperative to preemptively make “healthy' choices.” This, in turn, redefines and shapes the experience of what it is to be a “good,” “healthy,” or “responsible” mother/to-be.

Research Impact on “Continence”: A Scientometric Study on the Literature Output from SCOPUS

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
P. Krishnaveni ◽  
J. Selvam
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scientometric Study ◽  
Ks Test

The hit rate of the media increasingly grew from day to day on sexual harassment and other crime as sex has its base.. Therefore, to assess the response of the global social scientists, a study has been conducted with the support of scientometric tools. Relevant data were downloaded from the SCOPUS on “Continence”. Hypotheses were framed and duly tested with appropriate statistical tools. The Year wise growth of publications, language wise publications, type of documents involved in the publications and top ten journals were assessed. The prediction of Lotka has been tested with KS Test. Finally, it is suggested to encourage the global social scientists to publish many more articles on the ethical background to improve the value of ethics of the society.

scholarly journals Social capital: Limitations of the concept and participation in public life in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Kamil Aksiuto
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
State Of Affairs

The article examines some of the most common and crucial difficulties involved in the use of the concept of “social capital” for research purposes. Some of the limitations of the concept are subsequently exemplified in the ways in which it has been employed to explain the unwillingness of a large part of the Polish society to participate in the public life. Social scientists have often accounted for this by emphasizing the low level of social capital in Poland, i.e. absence of certain skills necessary for active engagement in public life and/or lack of trust (trust in public institutions as well as towards other people in general). The article argues that such explanations are either obscuring important factors which contributed to this state of affairs or might gloss over the resources of social capital which are present in the Polish society.

scholarly journals Fish Consumption and knowledge of Chemical Pollutants among a Sample of Women Who Recently Gave Birth in Tripoli, Libya

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Thuraya A. Abuhlega ◽  
Huria M Maamar
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Sea Bream ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Fish Products ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Chemical Pollutants ◽  
Canned Fish

Fish and fish products are important sources of nutritional elements, especially iodine and unsaturated fatty acids (omega-3). These are essential for pregnant women and their embryos during a pregnancy period. However, women and their embryos may be exposed to chemical pollutants when they consume fish. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the consumption pattern of fish during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and post-pregnancy periods, and explore the awareness on the chemical pollutants in fish among the women who recently gave birth in Tripoli city, Libya. This study targeted 370 women randomly in Tripoli city and collected data through a face to face questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of three parts: characteristics of new mothers; consumption of fish, crustaceans, mollusks and canned fish; and knowledge on the importance and risks of eating fish and fish products. The results showed that eating fish, crustaceans, and mollusks once a month was the highest proportion in the three periods with a percentage of 38, 38 and 41%, respectively. Sardine, sea bream and mackerel were the most fish common consumed by new mothers during the three periods. More than half of the mothers did not change the pattern of their consumption of fish, crustaceans and/or mollusks during pregnancy as compared to the pre-pregnancy period and after the birth of their children as compared to the pregnancy period. The canned tuna was the most canned fish consumed by respondents (93%). More than half of mothers realized that eating fish is important for health in general and for pregnant women with a percentage of 58 and 59%, respectively. The results of this study showed that there was a great need to raise the awareness of new mothers about chemical pollutants in fish. Furthermore, effective programs should be adopted by the competent authorities to educate mothers about what types and amounts of fish they should consume during pregnancy and the types that should be avoided.

Treating pregnant women with highly active antiretroviral therapy

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Katherine M Coyne ◽  
Rachael Jones ◽  
David Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Highly Active

Organisation of Medical Care for Pregnant Women, Women in Labor and New Mothers with COVID-19 Infection

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Vladimir Klimov
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Physiological Condition ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Physiological Changes ◽  
Insufficient Information ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
High Affinity ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Respiratory Viral Infections

Although pregnancy is a physiological condition, this category of women has a high probability of severe acute respiratory viral infections, and a fairly high affinity to these diseases, due to physiological changes in the immune system. In 2009/2010, during the A(H1N1)09 virus that caused pig flu, the morbidity among pregnant women reached 27.9%. In addition, such viruses as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are known to contribute to severe complications in pregnancy and lead to the need for endotracheal intubation and hospitalisation of women to the intensive care unit, and in some cases, diseases caused by these viruses can cause kidney failure and even death, which reaches 25% when SARS-CoV is detected among pregnant women. At the present stage, there is insufficient information on the new coronavirus infection impact on pregnant women and newborns, and there are no reliable recommendations as to the management of pregnant women when COVID-19 is diagnosed. In this article, we will try to summarise information on managing such patients based on the cases when coronavirus was diagnosed in pregnant women.

Prenatal screening of HIV positive pregnant women under HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. e18
Author(s):  
Mircea Onofriescu ◽  
Dragos Nemescu ◽  
Adina Tanase ◽  
Anca Berescu ◽  
Mirabela Petica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Prenatal Screening ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Highly Active

What does COVID-19 mean for new mothers in prison?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 460-461
Author(s):  
Naomi Delap
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
New Mothers

Naomi Delap, Director of Birth Companions, discusses the charity's work with pregnant women and new mothers in prison

scholarly journals Mental health issues in pregnant women in Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-501
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Bhimsen Devkota ◽  
Padmadharini Fanning ◽  
Jillian Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
The Uk

Mental health of pregnant women and new mothers is a growing area of concern in both low- and high-income countries. Maternity services in the UK, for example, have focused more attention on maternal mental health. We recognise that pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period is a time of major psychological and social change for women.

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