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" Sex, gender, and health / "
edited by Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt.
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BL
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1007501
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b761871
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| Title & Author
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Sex, gender, and health /\ edited by Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, ©1999.
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| Series Statement
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Biosocial Society symposium series ;; 11
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xiii, 170 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0521592828
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: 0521597072
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: 9780521592826
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: 9780521597074
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Sex, gender, and health : integrating biological and social perspectives / Tessa M. Pollard, Susan Brin Hyatt -- Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being : are parental sex preferences adaptive? / Catherine M. Hill, Helen L. Ball -- Gender bias in South Asia : effects on child growth and nutritional status / Emily K. Rousham -- Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease / Tessa M. Pollard -- Social meanings and sexual bodies : gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care / Lenore Manderson -- Poverty and the medicalisation of motherhood / Susan Brin Hyatt -- The vanishing woman : gender and population health / Patricia A. Kaufert -- Agency, opposition and resistance : a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups / Roland Littlewood.
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"It is widely recognised that men and women in societies all over the world have very different experiences of sickness and health. This collection brings together biological and social anthropologists whose work illustrates how these sub-disciplines have approached the task of explaining such differences. We demonstrate that an understanding of science and culture, using the notions of biological 'sex' and socio-culturally constructed 'gender' is essential for furthering analyses of men's and women's, boys' and girls' experiences of health and disease. We address the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health and psychological illness, and look at how the medicalisation of women and their relative absence from models of population health might affect their experiences of preventative health measures. This book will be particularly useful for students on human sciences or anthropology courses, or anyone wishing to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on the subject."--Jacket.
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Health, Cross-cultural studies.
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Health-- Sex differences.
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Medical anthropology.
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Anthropologie médicale.
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Anthropologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Geschlechtsunterschied
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Gesundheit
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Gesundheitsverhalten
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Health-- Sex differences.
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Health.
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Medical anthropology.
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Santé-- Différences entre sexes.
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Santé-- Études transculturelles.
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Health.
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Sex Factors.
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Gezondheid.
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Interculturele vergelijking.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Disease Susceptibility.
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Prejudice.
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Women's Health.
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| Dewey Classification
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613
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| LC Classification
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RA564.7.S49 1999
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1999 K-379
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QZ 53S5185 1999
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44.06bcl
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Hyatt, Susan Brin,1953-
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Pollard, Tessa M.,1966-
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