Health, risk, and adversity [electronic resource] / edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 2.
Other Authors: Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959-
Fuentes, Agustin
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Health risk assessment.
Social medicine.
Medical anthropology.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2008 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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 Núñez-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.].