Health, Risk, and Adversity, Volume 2Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes 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. |
Contents
Past and Present | 13 |
Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among | 26 |
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk | 52 |
Viral Panic Vulnerability and the Next Pandemic | 78 |
Thinking about Health through Time and Across Generations | 101 |
Adaptation Health and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive | 108 |
Explaining Health Inequalities | 175 |
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease | 185 |
An Integrative Anthropological Perspective | 209 |
An Evaluation of a GeneticDeterministic | 236 |
Conclusion | 248 |
Contributors | 273 |
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