The Maternal Imprint (Free Virtual Lecture)
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Dr. Sarah Richardson explores the shift in child development research from genes' impact to the importance of mothers' behavior and physiology in this free virtual talk with economist Dr. Emily Oster.
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Thu, March 3 2022 6PM – 7PM
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Sarah Richardson, Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
In conversation with Emily Oster, Professor of Economics, Brown University
At the turn of the twentieth century, any notion that a pregnant woman could alter her offspring’s physical and behavioral traits was dismissed as it was believed that a child’s fate was set by its genes and upbringing. Today, a wide body of interdisciplinary research argues that a woman’s experiences, behaviors, and physiology can have life-altering effects on offspring development. Drawing on her new book, The Maternal Imprint, (University of Chicago Press, 2021), leading gender and science scholar Sarah Richardson will examine how our ideas about heredity and maternal-fetal effects have evolved over the last fifty years. A conversation with economist and best-selling author Emily Oster will follow.
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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Last updated February 18, 2022.
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