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Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective

Title
Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective / edited by Anne L. Grauer, Patricia Stuart-Macadam.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Grauer, Anne L., 1958-
  • Stuart-Macadam, Patricia, 1951-
Description
xi, 192 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Sex factors in disease
  • Sex differences
  • Paleopathology
  • Sex Factors
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Paleopathology
  • Sex differences
  • Sex factors in disease
  • Paléopathologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: sex, gender and health status in prehistoric and contemporary populations / George J. Armelagos -- Sex-related patterns of trauma in humans and African apes / Robert Jurmain and Lynn Kilgore -- Osteoporosis in the bioarchaeology of women / David S. Weaver -- Iron deficiency anemia: exploring the difference / Patricia Stuart-Macadam -- Sex differences in trace elements: status or self-selection? / Della Collins Cook, and Kevin D. Hunt -- Male-female immune reactivity and its implications for interpreting evidence in human skeletal paleopathology / Donald J. Ortner -- Infectious disease, sex and gender: the complexity of it all / Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis, and Philip Boocock -- Gender differences in health and illness among rural populations in Latin America / Thomas L. Leatherman -- The mothers and daughters of a patrilineal civilization: the health of females among the late Classic Maya of Copan, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- A history of their own: patterns of death in a nineteenth-century poorhouse / Anne L. Grauer, Elizabeth M. McNamara, and Diane V. Houdek -- Gender, health and activity in foragers and farmers in the American southeast: implications for social organization in the Georgia Bight / Clark Spencer Larsen.
ISBN
  • 0521620902
  • 9780521620901
LCCN
98026485
OCLC
  • ocm39235742
  • 39235742
  • SCSB-568239
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library