This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and rank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. At the same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experiments and more invasive studies that can be used in human beings to examine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrine function, immunity, and eating...
This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status ...
In a single lifetime, which moment mattered the most? Son, brother, husband, father. hero, alcoholic, wife-beater, musician, friend. At the moment of his death Wullie McAvoy confronts everything he's been, everything he could've been and the people he loved, lost, saved and destroyed along the way. An innovative novella from the author of the Lanarkshire Strays series, the dEaDINBURGH series and On The Seventh Day. Praise for Wake Up And Smell The Coffin: "Powerful little novel." "Wonderful, complex characters." "Truly shocking in places but also really moving and...
In a single lifetime, which moment mattered the most? Son, brother, husband, father. hero, alcoholic, wife-beater, musician, friend. At the m...
