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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811424903321

Titolo

Health, risk, and adversity / / edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustin Fuentes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62736-8

9786612627361

1-84545-871-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

Panter-BrickCatherine <1959->

FuentesAgustin

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Health risk assessment

Social medicine

Medical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Health consequences of social and ecological adversity among indigenous Siberian populations : biocultural and evolutionary interactions / William R. Leonard, J. Josh Snodgrass, and Mark V. Sorensen -- A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the risk and context of emerging primate-borne zoonoses / Lisa Jones-Engel and Gregory Engel -- Viral panic, vulnerability, and the next pandemic / Ann Herring -- Adaptation, health, and the temporal domain of human reproductive physiology / Peter T. Ellison and Grazyna Jasienska --

Changes in risk factors for breast cancer in migrant women : an intergenerational comparison among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom / Alejandra Nunez-de la Mora and Gillian R. Bentley -- Family structure and child growth in sub-Saharan Africa : assessing "hidden risk" / Daniel W. Sellen -- The developmental origins of health and disease / Keith Godfrey and Mark Hanson -- Beyond the gradient : an integrative anthropological perspective on social stratification, stress, and health / Thomas McDade -- The slavery hypothesis : an evaluation of a genetic-deterministic explanation for hypertension prevalence rate inequalities / Lorena Madrigal ... [et al.].



Sommario/riassunto

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a comparative approach to the analysis of health disparities and human adaptability - and specifically focuses on the pathways that lead to unequal health outcomes. From an explicitly anthropological perspective situated in the practice and theory of biosocial studies, this book combines theoretical rigo