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Health, Risk, and Adversity (Paperback): Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes Health, Risk, and Adversity (Paperback)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 perspective - a comparative approach to the analysis of health disparities and human adaptability - and specifically focuses on the pathways that lead to unequal health outcomes. From an explicitly anthropological perspective situated in the practice and theory of biosocial studies, this book combines theoretical rigor with more applied and practice-oriented approaches and critically examines infectious and chronic diseases, reproduction, and nutrition.

Health, Risk, and Adversity (Hardcover, Hardcover): Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes Health, Risk, and Adversity (Hardcover, Hardcover)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes
R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 perspective - a comparative approach to the analysis of health disparities and human adaptability - and specifically focuses on the pathways that lead to unequal health outcomes. From an explicitly anthropological perspective situated in the practice and theory of biosocial studies, this book combines theoretical rigor with more applied and practice-oriented approaches and critically examines infectious and chronic diseases, reproduction, and nutrition.

Hormones, Health and Behaviour - A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective (Paperback): Catherine Panter-Brick, Carol M.... Hormones, Health and Behaviour - A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective (Paperback)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Carol M. Worthman
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of other challenges to health have emerged, particularly in lifestyle related, behaviourally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease. Hormones, Health and Behavior looks at the relationship of human biology and human society at the intersection of behavior, hormones and health. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socio-ecological view of function and well-being has become more apparent. This book documents an emerging understanding of how hormones create linkage between behavior or social life and health. It will inform graduate students and researchers interested in human sciences, human development, anthropology, epidemiology, public environmental and reproductive health.

Hunter-Gatherers - An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover): Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, Peter Rowley-Conwy Hunter-Gatherers - An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, Peter Rowley-Conwy
R2,999 R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Save R168 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume. Since the seminal work of Man the Hunter in 1968, new research in these three areas has become increasingly specialized, and the lines of communication among academic disciplines have all but broken down. This volume aims to reestablish an interdisciplinary debate, presenting critical issues commanding an ongoing interest in hunter-gatherer research, covering the evolution and history, demography, biology, technology, social organization, art, and language of diverse groups. As a reference text, this book will be useful to scholars and students of social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and human sciences.

Hormones, Health and Behaviour - A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective (Hardcover, New): Catherine Panter-Brick, Carol M.... Hormones, Health and Behaviour - A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective (Hardcover, New)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Carol M. Worthman
R2,997 R2,252 Discovery Miles 22 520 Save R745 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of new obstacles to health have emerged. Lifestyle-related, behaviorally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease are the most prevalent of these new challenges. This book examines the relationship between human biology and human society, and how behavior, hormones, and health intersect. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socioecological view of function and well-being has become more apparent. This book documents an emerging understanding of how hormones create the linkage between behavior or social life and health.

Biosocial Perspectives on Children (Hardcover, New): Catherine Panter-Brick Biosocial Perspectives on Children (Hardcover, New)
Catherine Panter-Brick
R2,983 R2,816 Discovery Miles 28 160 Save R167 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. Research on children is currently of wide-ranging interest. This groundbreaking book presents reviews of childhood from four major areas of interest--human evolution, sociology/social anthropology, biomedical anthropology and developmental psychology--to form a biosocial, cross-cultural understanding of childhood. The book places a strong emphasis on how childhood varies from culture to culture, offering examples from developed and developing countries, as well as from other animal species. It will be of interest to students and scholars within the fields of human biology, anthropology, sociology, health studies, and developmental psychology.

Hunter-Gatherers - An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Paperback): Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, Peter Rowley-Conwy Hunter-Gatherers - An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Paperback)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, Peter Rowley-Conwy
R1,441 Discovery Miles 14 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume. Since the seminal work of Man the Hunter in 1968, new research in these three areas has become increasingly specialized, and the lines of communication among academic disciplines have all but broken down. This volume aims to reestablish an interdisciplinary debate, presenting critical issues commanding an ongoing interest in hunter-gatherer research, covering the evolution and history, demography, biology, technology, social organization, art, and language of diverse groups. As a reference text, this book will be useful to scholars and students of social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and human sciences.

Abandoned Children (Hardcover): Catherine Panter-Brick, Malcolm T Smith Abandoned Children (Hardcover)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Malcolm T Smith
R1,806 R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Save R552 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The situation of children abandoned by adults, in foundling homes, sleeping rough in the streets, in refugee camps, and in other circumstances, attracts much political and journalistic attention, but surprisingly little from social scientists. As the editors of this volume point out, there is therefore not enough said about the varieties of experiences summarized as "abandonment." Nor has enough effort been put into studying the perspectives of children themselves on their situation. Situating the discourse on child abandonment in the more general field of debate on children, both historical and ethnographic, this book attempts to show that the presentations of "abandoned" children tend to take for granted ethnocentric ideas about what children can and should do, and about what their relationship should be with adults.

Abandoned Children (Paperback): Catherine Panter-Brick, Malcolm T Smith Abandoned Children (Paperback)
Catherine Panter-Brick, Malcolm T Smith
R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The situation of children abandoned by adults, in foundling homes, sleeping rough in the streets, in refugee camps, and in other circumstances, attracts much political and journalistic attention, but surprisingly little from social scientists. As the editors of this volume point out, there is therefore not enough said about the varieties of experiences summarized as "abandonment." Nor has enough effort been put into studying the perspectives of children themselves on their situation. Situating the discourse on child abandonment in the more general field of debate on children, both historical and ethnographic, this book attempts to show that the presentations of "abandoned" children tend to take for granted ethnocentric ideas about what children can and should do, and about what their relationship should be with adults.

Biosocial Perspectives on Children (Paperback): Catherine Panter-Brick Biosocial Perspectives on Children (Paperback)
Catherine Panter-Brick
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. Research on children is currently of wide-ranging interest. This groundbreaking book presents reviews of childhood from four major areas of interest--human evolution, sociology/social anthropology, biomedical anthropology and developmental psychology--to form a biosocial, cross-cultural understanding of childhood. The book places a strong emphasis on how childhood varies from culture to culture, offering examples from developed and developing countries, as well as from other animal species. It will be of interest to students and scholars within the fields of human biology, anthropology, sociology, health studies, and developmental psychology.

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