Neuroparenting The Expert Invasion of Family Life
This book traces the growing influence of ‘neuroparenting’ in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby’s brain develops. Taking issue with the claims that ‘the first years
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Jan Macvarish
Neuroparenting
Jan Macvarish
Neuroparenting The Expert Invasion of Family Life
Jan Macvarish University of Kent United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-54732-3 ISBN 978-1-137-54733-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54733-0
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Much of the research which informs this book was conducted with Dr Ellie Lee, Reader of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, and Dr Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, for the project ‘Biologising Parenting: Neuroscience Discourse and English Social and Public Health Policy’. I therefore thank Ellie and Pam and our funder, the Faraday Institute’s ‘Uses and Abuses of Biology’ programme (2011–14). I also thank my other associates at the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth and Frank Furedi, for the intellectual inspiration, stimulation and friendship they have provided over the years and for their invaluable feedback on an earlier draft of this book. To return to Ellie, I thank her especially for the unstinting support she has provided during our many collaborations at Kent. Her passion for scholarship combines with an absolute commitment to an outward-looking sense of purpose to create a uniquely collegial and inspiring culture in our virtual ‘centre’. Finally, I thank my family. My parents Ann and Alasdair Macvarish are the ultimat
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