Tessa Pollard / Susan Hyatt (eds.)

Sex, Gender and Health

Herausgeber: Hyatt, Susan Brin; Pollard, Tessa; Panter-Brick, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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' are both 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.

Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social perspectives Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt; 2. Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive? Catherine M. Hill and Helen L. Ball; 3. Gender bias in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status Emily K. Rousham; 4. Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease Tessa M. Pollard; 5. Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care Lenore Manderson; 6. Poverty and the medicalization of motherhood Susan Brin Hyatt; 7. The vanishing woman: gender and population health Patricia A. Kaufert; 8. Agency, opposition and resistance: a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups Roland Littlewood.

Sex, Gender and Health explains the differences in the health experiences of boys and girls, men and women. Bringing together social and biological scientists in cross-cultural perspective, it explores gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease and psychological illness for all students wishing to gain a rounded picture.

Explores differences in health experiences of boys, girls, men and women from both biological and social perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780521592826
• ISBN-10: 0521592828
• Artikelnr.: 21182827

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social
perspectives Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt; 2. Parental
manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex
preferences adaptive? Catherine M. Hill and Helen L. Ball; 3. Gender bias
in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status Emily K.
Rousham; 4. Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease Tessa M. Pollard; 5.
Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to
women's health care Lenore Manderson; 6. Poverty and the medicalization of
motherhood Susan Brin Hyatt; 7. The vanishing woman: gender and population
health Patricia A. Kaufert; 8. Agency, opposition and resistance: a
systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups Roland
Littlewood.