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Health, Risk, and Adversity / ed. by Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustín Fuentes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845454555
  • 9781845458713
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.3 .H428 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Foreword. Framing Health, Risk, and Adversity -- Introduction. Health, Risk, and Adversity: A Contextual View from Anthropology -- PART I • HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASE IN TRANSITION -- Understanding Health: Past and Present -- 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary Interactions -- 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-Borne Zoonoses -- 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability, and the Next Pandemic -- PART II • GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE -- Thinking about Health through Time and Across Generations -- 4. Adaptation, Health, and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive Physiology -- 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An Intergenerational Comparison Among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom -- 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “Hidden Risk” -- PART III • GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH -- Explaining Health Inequalities -- 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health -- 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate Inequalities -- Conclusion. Adversity, Risk, and Health: A View from Public Health -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index
Summary: 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 rigor with more applied and practice-oriented approaches and critically examines infectious and chronic diseases, reproduction, and nutrition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Foreword. Framing Health, Risk, and Adversity -- Introduction. Health, Risk, and Adversity: A Contextual View from Anthropology -- PART I • HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASE IN TRANSITION -- Understanding Health: Past and Present -- 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary Interactions -- 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-Borne Zoonoses -- 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability, and the Next Pandemic -- PART II • GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE -- Thinking about Health through Time and Across Generations -- 4. Adaptation, Health, and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive Physiology -- 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An Intergenerational Comparison Among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom -- 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “Hidden Risk” -- PART III • GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH -- Explaining Health Inequalities -- 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health -- 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate Inequalities -- Conclusion. Adversity, Risk, and Health: A View from Public Health -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index

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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 rigor with more applied and practice-oriented approaches and critically examines infectious and chronic diseases, reproduction, and nutrition.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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