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Health, Risk, and Adversity.
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 perspectivea comparati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2008.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Biosocial Society, 2
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page-Health, risk, anad adversity; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of Boxes; Foreword; Intrtoduction; Part I-Health risks and disease in transition; Understanding health; Ch 1 -Health consequences of social and ecological adversity among indigenous Siberian populations; Ch 2-A miltidisciplinary approach to understanding the risk and context od emerging primate-borne zoonoses; Ch 3-Viral panic, vulnerability, and the next pandemic; Part II-Generaational and developmental change; Thinking about health through time and across generations.
- Ch 4-Adaptation, health, and the temporal domain of human reproductive physiologyCh 5-Changes in risk factors for brest cancer in Migrant women; Ch 6-Family structure and child growth in sub-Saharan Africa; Part III-Gene evolution, environment, and health; Explaining health inequalities; Ch 7-The developmental origins of health and disease; Ch 8-Beyond the gradient; Ch 9-The slavery hypothesis; Conclusion; Contributors; Glossary; Index.