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Sex, Gender and Health

Sex, Gender and Health

Hyatt, Susan Brin
Pollard, Tessa
Panter-Brick, Catherine

Hardcover

Series: Biosocial Society Symposium, Book 11

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521592828
ISBN13: 9780521592826
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 26 1999
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It is widely recognized 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 subdisciplines have approached the task of explaining such differences. It demonstrates 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. It addresses the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health, and psychological illness, and looks at how the medicalization 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 in human sciences or anthropology courses, or anyone wishing to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on the subject.

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