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Health, Risk, and Adversity

By: Catherine Panter-Brick (Editor), Agustín Fuentes (Editor)

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eBook | 15 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"[This volume] is very well organized, overall, with a layout ideal for students and academics who are looking to collaborate with their colleagues in anthropology and public health. The chapter structures offer well thought out summaries; a helpful glossary is found in the back. Those curious about human action and inaction as sources of ill health will find adversity and risk's impact on health clearly and vibrantly displayed through Panter-Brick and Fuentes' bio-cultural investigation of unequal health outcomes." · Journal of the Bio-Social Society

"These are vibrant and important treatments of socio-cultural concepts in health that fit well into medical anthropology, but also go beyond that. Their contribution lies in reminding and refining how human health and biology are produced, perceived, and communicated in a deep social context that includes history, politics, economics, and current global culture, especially modern media.... The editors have brilliantly organized the volume." · Stephen T. McGarvey, Professor of Community Health and Anthropology, Brown University