Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates The Biology of the Gradient /

This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and rank affiliation, i.e. bot...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Shively, Carol A. (Editor), Wilson, Mark E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
Subjects:
Physiology.
Social structure.
Equality.
Human physiology.
Clinical health psychology.
Neurosciences.
Animal Physiology.
Social Structure.
Human Physiology.
Health Psychology.
Neuroscience.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Relevance of NHP Translational Research to Understanding Social Inequalities in Health in Human Beings
  • An Introduction to the Female Macaque Model of Social Subordination Stress
  • Effects of Social Subordination on Macaque Neurobehavioral Outcomes: focus on Neurodevelopment
  • The Effects of Social Experience on the Stress System and Immune Function in Non-Human Primates
  • The Influence of Social Environment on Morbidity, Mortality, and Reproductive Success in Free-Ranging Cercopithecine Primates
  • Social Status and the Non-human Primate Brain
  • Emotional Eating in Socially Subordinate Female Rhesus Monkeys
  • Dietary Modification of Physiological Responses to Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Implications for the Obesity Epidemic.

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