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

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

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Description xvi, 293 p. : ill., map.
Series Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 2
Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Nunez-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.].
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Health risk assessment.
Social medicine.
Medical anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959-
Fuentes, Agustin.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845454555 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845454553 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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