Health, Risk, and Adversity

Catherine Panter-Brick is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Her research focuses on critical risks to health across key stages of human development. She has edited severa books to bridge research findings into teaching practice, such as Biosocial Perspectives on Children (1998), Hormones, Health, and Behavior (1999), Abandoned Children (2000), and Hunter-Gatherers (2001). She is Senior Editor (Medical Anthropology Section) for Social Science & Medicine.

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Foreword: Framing Risk, Adversity and Health

Alan Goodman



Introduction: Health, Risk, Adversity: A Contextual View from Anthropology

Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes



PART I: HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASES IN TRANSITION



Commentary I: Understanding Health Past and Present

Charlotte Roberts



Chapter 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary Implications

William R Leonard, J Josh Snodgrass and Mark V Sorenson



Chapter 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-borne Zoonoses

Lisa Jones-Engel and Gregory Engel



Chapter 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability and the Next Pandemic

Ann Herring



Appendix I: Was the 1918 Pandemic Caused by a Bird Flu Virus?

Appendix II: Applying the Syndemic Approach: Whooping Cough at York



PART II: GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE



Commentary II: Thinking About Health Through Time and Across Generations

Darna Dufour



Chapter 4. Adaptation, Health and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive Physiology

Peter Ellison and Grazyna Jasienska



Chapter 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An inter-generation comparison among Bangladeshis in the UK

Alejandra Núñez-de-la-Mora and Gillian R. Bentley



Chapter 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “hidden risk”

Daniel W. Sellen



Appendix: Poor Growth and Risk of Death



PART III: GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH



Commentary III: Explaining Health Inequalities

Bill Dressler



Chapter 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Keith Godfrey and Mark Hanson



Chapter 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health

Thomas McDade



Chapter 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate Inequalities

Lorena Madrigal, Mwenza Blell, Ernesto Ruiz and Flory Otarola



Conclusion: Adversity, Risk and Health: A View from Public Health

Martin White



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