By Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully, and Neil G. Bennett. 258 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 0-520-23866-4 (cloth); 0-520-23955-5 (paper).
Written from a social-science perspective, this book deals withthe causes and consequences of low birth weight (less than 2500g). Using low birth weight as an example, the book addressesthe "overstated separation between nature and nurture by consideringhow society, biology and genetics interact." To dissect thesocial and environmental causes of low birth weight from geneticand biologic factors, the problem must be analyzed across generations,which the book does comprehensively. One of the main assumptionsis that the influences of race, class, society, and biologyon low birth weight can be explained most effectively by looking. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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