Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm
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Short impact summary
Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm (2024), published by University of California Press, has been cited 17 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 1% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 2,135 times and is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm by Emily Yates-Doerr was published by University of California Press in 2024. Conceptually, the work connects to Harm, Reproduction, Do no harm, Medicine and Environmental health. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology.
OpenAlex records 17 citations. That places it in the top 1% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2025 with 14 citing works. Notable citing venues include University of California Press eBooks, Human Organization and Development and Change. The citing works include 10 book chapters, 6 journal articles and 1 book. They come from 5 countries, led by the United States, Brazil and Denmark.
In teaching, it is discussed in 1 recorded lecture. It has been downloaded 2,135 times via OAPEN and Ubiquity Press. Open Library reports a combined count of 1 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Zero hunger among the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.209
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: OAPEN
- OA basis: OAPEN record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OA verification: Claimed OA, not in DOAB
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.209
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94735
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Reader reception Books
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology
- Commercial: Amazon · Goodreads
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 17 citing works. 100.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- University of California, Riverside (11)
- Universidad de Guanajuato (1)
- University of Kansas (1)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (1)
- Aarhus University (1)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (1)
- National University of Samoa (1)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) (1)
- Dana Simmons (9)
- Seohyung Kim (1)
- Tausala Aiavao (1)
- Brent E. Metz (1)
- Dana Simmons (1)
- Daniela Cabrini (1)
- Jessica A. Hardin (1)
- Carrie Seay‐Fleming (1)
- Tauaitala Lees (1)
- Trine My Thygaard-Nielsen (1)
- Abril Saldaña‐Tejeda (1)
- Saunima’a Ma Fulu-Aiolupotea (1)
- Ramona Boodoosingh (1)
- Falelua Maua (1)
- Uila Laifa Lima (1)
- Susanne Højlund (1)
- Ana Paula Visintini (1)
- Silvia Sanchez Diaz (1)
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Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: University of California Press
Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Mal-Nutrition. Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm by Emily Yates-Doerr UCL Social & Historical Sciences"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 90%
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- Emily Yates-Doerr First Corresponding
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The predicaments of development work in Guatemala’s Ch’orti’ Maya area | Human Organization | 10.1080/00187259.2026.2685534 |
| 2026 | To change or not to change food habits: The green transition as a flexible context | Food and Foodways | 10.1080/07409710.2026.2650585 |
| 2025 | Reborn motherhood in Latin America: race, care and neoliberal subjectivities | Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society | 10.1080/25729861.2025.2577517 |
| 2025 | Assembling Nutrition‐sensitive Agriculture: How Global Food Security Projects Are Sustained Despite Tensions, Contradictions and Failure | Development and Change | 10.1111/dech.70020 |
| 2025 | Fight—Don’t Starve | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.d |
| 2025 | Craving and Control | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.f |
| 2025 | Carceral Hunger | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.h |
| 2025 | Conclusion: They Were Hungry | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.j |
| 2025 | Introduction | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.a |
| 2025 | The Starving Process | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.b |
| 2025 | Weapon of White Supremacy | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.g |
| 2025 | Food Aid and the Starved Personality | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.e |
| 2025 | Punishment and Reward | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.c |
| 2025 | Ozempic | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.232.i |
| 2025 | Under the threshold: Reimagining toxicity through particle pollution in South Korea | Human Organization | 10.1080/00187259.2025.2466033 |
| 2025 | Diabetes care in Samoa: Prevention as not-enough-care and the knowledge gaps it produces | Global Public Health | 10.1080/17441692.2025.2482768 |
| 2024 | On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic | OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation) | 10.1525/luminos.232 |
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