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Health and ethnicity
- Title
- Health and ethnicity / edited by Helen Macbeth and Prakash Shetty.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2001.
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- Description
- xviii, 250 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology ; 41
- Uniform Title
- Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 41.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Defining the ethnic group: important and impossible -- Ethnicity and race as epidemiological variables: centrality of purpose and context -- The contribution of socio-economic position to health differentials between ethnic groups: evidence from the United States and Britain -- Health: the elusive concept -- Human inbreeding: a familiar story full of surprises -- The inherited disorders of haemoglobin -- Genetic variation and ethnic variability in disease risk -- Approaches to investigating the genetic basis of ethnic differences to disease risk -- Diabetes, ancestral diets and dairy foods: an evolutionary perspective on population differences in susceptibility to diabetes -- Variations in health and disease: race, ethnicity or 'nutrition transition' -- Ethnic variations and cardiovascular disease -- Ethnicity and the risk of cancer -- 'Culture' in the field of race and mental health -- Sexual health and ethnicity -- Challenges and policy implications of ethnic diversity and health.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-15876
- ISBN
- 0415241669 (alk. paper)
- 0415241677 (PB)
- LCCN
- 00046676
- OCLC
- 45023101
- Title
- Health and ethnicity / edited by Helen Macbeth and Prakash Shetty.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2001.
- Series
- Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology ; 41Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 41.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Macbeth, Helen M.Shetty, Prakash S.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-15876