Anne L. Grauer / Patricia Stuart-Macadam (eds.)

Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective

Herausgeber: Grauer, Anne L.; Anne L., Grauer; Stuart-Macadam, Patricia

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780521021210
• ISBN-10: 0521021219
• Artikelnr.: 22029389

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: sex, gender and health status in
prehistoric and contemporary populations George J. Armelagos; 2.
Sex-related patterns of trauma in humans and African apes Robert Jurmain
and Lynn Kilgore; 3. Osteoporosis in the bioarchaeology of women David S.
Weaver; 4. Iron deficiency anaemia: exploring the difference Patricia
Stuart-Macadam; 5. Sex differences in trace elements: status or
self-selection? Della Collins Cook and Kevin D. Hunt; 6. Male/female immune
reactivity and its implications for interpreting evidence in human skeletal
paleopathology Donald J. Ortner; 7. Infectious disease, sex and gender: the
complexity of it all Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis and Philip
Boocock; 8. Gender differences in health and illness among rural
populations in Latin America Thomas L. Leatherman; 9. The mothers and
daughters of a patrilineal civilization: the health of females among the
Late Classic Maya of Copan, Honduras Rebecca Storey; 10. A history of their
own: patterns of death in a nineteenth-century poorhouse Anne L. Grauer,
Elizabeth M. McNamara and Diane V. Houdek; 11. Gender, health and activity
in foragers and farmers in the American southeast: implications for social
organization in the Georgia Bight Clark S. Larsen; Index.