Research Catalog

Title

Human biology and social inequality / edited by S.S. Strickland and P.S. Shetty.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shetty, Prakash S.
• Strickland, S. S. (Simon Slade), 1956-

Description

xii, 346 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

39th Symposium volume of the Society for the Study of Human biology

Uniform Title

Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 39.

Subject

• Biology
• Biology > Congresses
• Equality > Congresses
• Human biology > Congresses
• Social Medicine
• Social Medicine > Congresses
• Social medicine > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congress

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Human biology and social inequality / Simon Strickland and Prakash Shetty -- Social inequalities and health in the contemporary world : comparative overview / Sally Macintyre -- Accumulation of health risks across social groups in a national longitudinal study / Chris Power and Sharon Matthews -- Equity, social cohesion and health / Richard G. Wilkinson -- Growth and maturation problems of children and social inequality during economic liberalization in central and eastern Europe / Ottó G. Eiben -- Social inequalities in the re-emergence of infectious disease / John D.H. Porter and Jessica A. Ogden -- Environmental health, social inequality and biological differences / Lawrence M. Schell and Stefan A. Czerwinski -- Educational potential and attainment : long-term implications of childhood undernutrition / Sara Stinson -- Affluence in developing countries and natural selection in humans / Kerin O'Dea -- Physical activity, sport, social status and Darwinian fitness / Robert M. Malina -- Biological correlates of social and geographical mobility in humans : an overview / C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor -- How female reproductive decisions cause social inequality in male reproductive fitness : evidence from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / Eckart Voland and Athanasios Chasiotis -- Environmental constraints, social inequality and reproductive success : a case-study in Morocco / Emile Crognier -- Emergence of health and social inequalities in the archaeological record / Mark Nathan Cohen -- Eugenics and population policies / A.H. Bittles and Y-Y. Chew -- Policy implications of health inequalities in developing countries / Carolyn Stephens -- Policy options for managing health inequalities in industrial and post-industrial countries / Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Michael G. Marmot.

ISBN

0521570433 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^97023261^//r98

OCLC

37107087

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library