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Health, Risk and Adversity - 9781845454555

Un libro in lingua di Panter Brick Catherine (EDT), Fuentes Agustin (EDT) edito da Berghahn Books, 2008

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Panter-Brick (anthropology, Durham U., UK) and Fuentes (anthropology, U. of Notre Dame, US) bring together contributors from biological anthropology, medical anthropology, epidemiology, archaeology, human biology, sociocultural anthropology, and public health for an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exploration of the relationship between health risks and adversity, defined as social or physical environments that create hardship or affliction. Topics addressed include the health consequences of social and ecological adversity among indigenous Siberian populations; the risk and context of emerging primate-to-human diseases; panic narratives in the discourse of avian influenza; generational changes in risk factors for breast cancer in Bangladeshi migrant women in the UK; assessment of "hidden risk" associated with family structure and child growth in sub-Saharan Africa; developmental origins of health and disease; social stratification, stress, and health; and critical assessment of a genetic determination hypothesis for explaining hypertension rates among African Americans. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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