Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequences - of precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equation - becomes especially tricky to sort out. This title answers this question.
The Starting Gate engages, from a novel perspective, the nature-nurture debate, suing the case of low birth weight as a lens to examine biological and social inheritance.
