Health, risk, and adversity
By: edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes.
Contributors: Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959-; Fuentes, Agustín.
Edition: 1st hardcover ed.
Series: Studies of the Biosocial Society -- v. 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781845454555
Subjects: Health risk assessment; Social medicine; Medical anthropology; Health Status Disparities; Disease -- ethnology; Disease -- etiology; Risk Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the risk and context of emerging primate-borne zoonoses / Lisa Jones-Engel and Gregory Engel; title: Viral panic, vulnerability, and the next pandemic / Ann Herring; title: Adaptation, health, and the temporal domain of human reproductive physiology / Peter T. Ellison and Grazyna Jasienska; title: Changes in risk factors for breast cancer in migrant women : an intergenerational comparison among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom / Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora and Gillian R. Bentley; title: Family structure and child growth in sub-Saharan Africa : assessing "hidden risk" / Daniel W. Sellen; title: The developmental origins of health and disease / Keith Godfrey and Mark Hanson; title: Beyond the gradient: an integrative anthropological perspective on social stratification, stress, and health / Thomas McDade; title: The slavery hypothesis : an evaluation of a genetic-deterministic explanation for hypertension prevalence rate inequalities / Lorena Madrigal ... [et al.].