BACKGROUND The impact of the intrauterine environment on the developmental programming of adult female reproductive success is still poorly understood and potentially underestimated. Litter size variation in a nonhuman primate, the common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus), allows us to model the effects of varying intrauterine environments (e.g. nutrient restriction, exposure to male womb-ma...

Reseña de Michelle Sadler, Policing the Womb. Invisible Women and Criminalization of Motherhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Introduction Margaret Ounsted (1971) reminds us that, in a group of infants with birthweights below 2 -5 kg, one may expect onethird to owe their low-birthweight to slow fetal growth, the rest to short-gestation. She believes that the use of birthweight alone as an indication of retarded fetal growth should now be wholly abandoned, since the rate of growth of the fetus and the occurrence of ear...