Tessa Pollard / Susan Hyatt (eds.)

Sex, Gender and Health

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521597074
• ISBN-10: 0521597072
• Artikelnr.: 22134009

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.