Biological Measures of Human Experience across the Lifespan

Making Visible the Invisible
Buch | Hardcover
XI, 336 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-44101-6 (ISBN)

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This volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including pain, stress, activity levels, sleep quality, memory, and menopausal hot flashes - that have traditionally relied upon self-reports, but are subject to inter-individual differences in self-awareness or culture-based expectations. The volume also examines other ways in which normally "invisible" phenomena can be made visible, such as the caloric content of foods, blood pressure, fecundity, growth, nutritional status, genotypes, and bone health. All of the chapters in this book address the means by which social scientists and human biologists measure subjective and objective experience.

 

Lynnette Leidy Sievert is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has international recognition for her cross-cultural studies of women at mid-life. Her work includes both quantitative and qualitative measures, and her human biology background has enabled her to integrate biological and anthropological approaches to understanding this critical period in women’s lives. She is an elected Fellow of the AAAS, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Human Biology Association and on the Board of Trustees of the North American Menopause Society. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective, published by Rutgers University Press in 2006. Daniel E. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has utilized self-reports and biological markers of stress in his studies on immigration and ethnic health disparities. He is the former President of the Human Biology Association and an elected Fellow of the AAAS. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as well as coauthor of Fundamentals of Human Ecology (1998) and author of Human Biological Diversity: An Introduction to Human Biology (2010), both published by Prentice-Hall.

Introduction.- Part I:  Beginnings.- Part II:  Adulthood.- Part III:  Aging.- Part IV: Making visible the invisible. 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 336 p. 39 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte Anthropology • Biological variations of growth spurts and behavio • Biological variations of growth spurts and behavior • Fundamental aspects of human experience • Invisible cognitive phenomena • Parental sleep fragmentation and deprivation • Physiological activity of gonads • Role of biological processes in cognitive activity • Social Sciences
ISBN-10 3-319-44101-9 / 3319441019
ISBN-13 978-3-319-44101-6 / 9783319441016
Zustand Neuware
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