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Chellamal Keshavan

@chellamalkeshavan.bsky.social

11 months ago

🌱 Officially stepping into my PhD journey!

Looking forward to connecting with others working at the edge of global health, kinship, and structural inequity. Let’s talk power, care, and complexity.
#PhDLife #ReproJustice #AdoptionStudies #DecolonizeResearch

Reut Avinun, PhD

@reutavinun.bsky.social

11 months ago

Genes and the intergenerational transmission of BMI and obesity This paper compares the strength of intergenerational transmission of body mass index (BMI) and obesity in a sample of adoptees relative to a matched …

5/11 Studies of adopted children show little connection between their weight and their adoptive parents in late adolescence, while biological children show stronger connections to birth parents.
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#AdoptionStudies

The Ohio State University Press

@ohiostatepress.bsky.social

1 year ago

In this conversation, John McLeod and Emily Hipchen discuss how adoption is to be found at the center of wider social and historical circumstances. @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/ZGLEN #AdoptionStudies

The Ohio State University Press

@ohiostatepress.bsky.social

1 year ago

A stack of old books wrapped in twine.

Alice Diver argues that adoption folklore & literary fiction often treats misunderstood characters as villains within the adoption system. @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/73pZx #AdoptionStudies #CriticalAdoptionStudies

The Ohio State University Press

@ohiostatepress.bsky.social

1 year ago

Meeting authors at conferences and feeling the buzz of joy at seeing their work be realized in book form is the best. Here’s Jieun’s book, the latest in our Formations series. #adoptee #adoptionstudies #performance #theatre ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...