The Handbook of DOHaD and Society: Past, Present, and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration

Michelle Pentecost is a physician-anthropologist based in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London and in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa (2024, Rutgers University Press).

Jaya Keaney is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her work in feminist science studies explores how reproduction is shaped by technoscientific practices and regimes of race, gender, sexuality and coloniality. She is the author of Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling (2023, Duke University Press).

Tessa Moll is a medical anthropologist in South Africa. Her work explores the possibilities of life-making and life-sustaining that arise from new technologies and new knowledges of reproduction. She is currently completing her first book, a monograph on reproductive politics, fertility care, and race in the afterlife of apartheid.

Michael Penkler is a medical sociologist and science and technology studies (STS) scholar based at the University of Applied Sciences, Wiener Neustadt, Austria. His work explores the social, ethical and political aspects and implications of life science innovations, biomedical technologies, and healthcare.