Michelle Pentecost

Medical Anthropologist

New book:

The Politics of Potential

Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa

Order the book (Africa)
Order the book (Rutgers University Press, worldwide)

The Handbook of DOHaD & Society:

Past, Present and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration

Available open access

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Trajectories

the social science of developmental pathways to health from preconception to childhood in South Africa

Read about this UKRI-funded work here.

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The Future of Social Medicine

Listen to this keynote address here.

Latest articles

Epigenetics and the anthropology of reproduction. 2023. With Fiona Ross and Tessa Moll in Van Hollen, C and Appleton N (eds). A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine & Technology. Wiley-Blackwell.

The Politics of Trauma: Gender, Futurity, and Violence Prevention in South Africa. 2022. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

Read more here.