Health and lifestyle change
By: edited by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Joan Schall, and Mary Hediger
Series: MASCA research papers in science and archaeology -- 9
Publisher: MASCA, the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Livsstil; Helse; Medical anthropology; Primitive societies; Health and hygiene; Prehistoric peoples; Diseases; Antropologia; Antropologia aplicada a saude publica; Pre-historia; Demografia historica
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Health and lifestyle transition / Rebecca Huss-Ashmore; title: Behavioral change and the evolution of human host-pathogen systems / Janet W. McGrath; title: Changing diet and health in pre- and protohistoric Ontario / M. Anne Katzenberg; title: Preindustrial urban lifestyle and health / Rebecca Storey; title: From blackstrap molasses to smokeless tobacco: a chronicle of assaults on the dental health of Native American of the Northwest / Roberta L. Hall; title: Health, economic change, and regional political economic relations: examples from prehistory / Alan H. Goodman, Debra L. Martin, and George J. Armelagos; title: Social status and growth: theoretical and methodological considerations / James R. Bindon; title: Variability in adaptive responses to dietary change among Andean farmers / William R. Leonard; title: Illness as lifestyle change / Thomas L. Leatherman; title: Fat patterns and blood pressure among the Manus of Papula New Guinea: a migrant study / Joan Schall; title: Economic modernization and human adaptability perspectives / Stephen T. McGarvey; title: Lifestyle change and fertility transition for Southeast Asian refugees: focus on the Lao / Jena Brainard and Amy Zaharlick; title: Morbidity, mortality, and the impact of labor migration in Lesotho / Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Sarah Strauss; title: Risk focusing: an example of biocultural interaction / Lawrence M. Schell.