Sex, gender and health
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 differ...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Biosocial Society symposium series ; no. 11. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3971827x*spi |
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- Cover
- Half-title
- Series-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social perspectives
- From male and female to men and women
- Seeking explanations
- Science and culture
- References
- 2 Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive?
- Introduction
- Background: human infanticidal practices
- Sex preferences
- Ecology and endogamy
- the Netsilik Eskimos
- Prestige and sons among Chinese peasants.
- Daughter rejection and maternal age in Papua New Guinea
- Female infanticide and neglect on the Indian sub-continent
- Preferential investment in daughters
- the Mukogodo of Kenya
- Differential parental investment in the Ecuadorian Highlands
- Proximate cues and sex preferences: a cross-cultural test
- General discussion
- References
- 3 Gender bias in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status
- Introduction: biological differences in male and female child mortality
- Gender bias in South Asia.
- Socio-economic and temporal variation in female undernutrition: a case study from Bangladesh
- Sex differences in growth
- Evidence of catch-up growth
- Summary
- References
- 4 Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease
- Modernisation and cardiovascular disease
- Modernisation and oestrogen
- Gender, stress and the role of oestrogen
- Gender differences in experiences of stressors
- Do men and women show different physiological responses to stress?
- The impact of stress on oestrogen levels
- Conclusion
- References.
- 5 Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care
- The social context of health and illness
- Reproductive imperatives
- Reproductive tract infections
- Prevention of HIV
- The sexualisation of non-sexual infections
- Conclusions
- References
- 6 Poverty and the medicalisation of motherhood
- Medicalisation and modernity
- The story of a 'deviant' woman
- Poor bodies as objects of knowledge
- The medicalised mother
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 7 The vanishing woman: gender and population health
- Who are the scientists?
- Reading the text
- The Whitehall studies
- Adding in the women
- Setting the context
- The demand to be recognised
- Conclusion
- References
- 8 Agency, opposition and resistance: a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups
- Overdoses: woman's violence against herself
- Comparative perspectives
- Function and opposition
- The 'mystical pressure' of Western medicine: spirits and diseases
- Why women?
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Glossary
- Index.
