Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780521620901 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 206 str.

Opis

A growing body of literature indicates that diseases can affect women and men differently. Because sex differences extend far beyond biology, it is crucial to adopt a biocultural approach toward understanding human disease patterns and processes. This book synthesizes modern medical research with paleopathological investigations. Contributors explore conditions such as osteoporosis and osteopenia, iron deficiency anemia, infection, and immune reactivity and trauma. Recognizing the relationship between these conditions and aspects of sex and gender in past populations assist in the formulation of models from which modern disease processes can be better understood.

Recenzje

"provides both an informative and interesting addition to the growing publications on gender. The bibliographies following each article are good guides to further sources and the index isz useful for both paleopathologists and non-paleopathologists. Grauer and Struart MacAdam have done a nice job of cross-referencing and this is important in a work like this becuase most readers will be primarily interested in a specific chapter. All chapters are well-written, with numerous, useful sub-headings. Photographs and figures are appropriate." Candian Jrnl of Archaeology 24, 2000

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: sex, gender and health status in prehistoric and contemporary populations George J. Armelagos; 2. Sex-related patterns of trauma in humans and African apes Robert Jurmain and Lynn Kilgore; 3. Osteoporosis in the bioarchaeology of women David S. Weaver; 4. Iron deficiency anaemia: exploring the difference Patricia Stuart-Macadam; 5. Sex differences in trace elements: status or self-selection? Della Collins Cook and Kevin D. Hunt; 6. Male/female immune reactivity and its implications for interpreting evidence in human skeletal paleopathology Donald J. Ortner; 7. Infectious disease, sex and gender: the complexity of it all Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis and Philip Boocock; 8. Gender differences in health and illness among rural populations in Latin America Thomas L. Leatherman; 9. The mothers and daughters of a patrilineal civilization: the health of females among the Late Classic Maya of Copan, Honduras Rebecca Storey; 10. A history of their own: patterns of death in a nineteenth-century poorhouse Anne L. Grauer, Elizabeth M. McNamara and Diane V. Houdek; 11. Gender, health and activity in foragers and farmers in the American southeast: implications for social organization in the Georgia Bight Clark S. Larsen; Index.