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.

"[This volume] is very well organized, overall, with a layout ideal for students and academics who are looking to collaborate with their colleagues in anthropology and public health. The chapter structures offer well thought out summaries; a helpful glossary is found in the back. Those curious about human action and inaction as sources of ill health will find adversity and risk’s impact on health clearly and vibrantly displayed through Panter-Brick and Fuentes’ bio-cultural investigation of unequal health outcomes."  ·  Journal of the Bio-Social Society"These are vibrant and important treatments of socio-cultural concepts in health that fit well into medical anthropology, but also go beyond that. Their contribution lies in reminding and refining how human health and biology are produced, perceived, and communicated in a deep social context that includes history, politics, economics, and current global culture, especially modern media.… The editors have brilliantly organized the volume."  ·  Stephen T. McGarvey, Professor of Community Health and Anthropology, Brown University

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesForeword: Framing Risk, Adversity and HealthAlan GoodmanIntroduction: Health, Risk, Adversity: A Contextual View from AnthropologyCatherine Panter-Brick and Agustín FuentesPART I: HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASES IN TRANSITIONCommentary I: Understanding Health Past and PresentCharlotte RobertsChapter 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary ImplicationsWilliam R Leonard, J Josh Snodgrass and Mark V SorensonChapter 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-borne ZoonosesLisa Jones-Engel and Gregory Engel Chapter 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability and the Next PandemicAnn Herring Appendix I: Was the 1918 Pandemic Caused by a Bird Flu Virus?Appendix II: Applying the Syndemic Approach: Whooping Cough at YorkPART II: GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGECommentary II: Thinking About Health Through Time and Across GenerationsDarna Dufour Chapter 4. Adaptation, Health and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive PhysiologyPeter Ellison and Grazyna JasienskaChapter 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An inter-generation comparison among Bangladeshis in the UKAlejandra Núñez-de-la-Mora and Gillian R. Bentley Chapter 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “hidden risk”Daniel W. SellenAppendix: Poor Growth and Risk of DeathPART III: GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTHCommentary III: Explaining Health InequalitiesBill DresslerChapter 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and DiseaseKeith Godfrey and Mark HansonChapter 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and HealthThomas McDadeChapter 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate InequalitiesLorena Madrigal, Mwenza Blell, Ernesto Ruiz and Flory OtarolaConclusion: Adversity, Risk and Health: A View from Public HealthMartin WhiteContributorsGlossaryIndex