Hormones, health, and behavior : a socio-ecological and lifespan perspective /
Contributor(s): Panter-Brick, Catherine
| Worthman, C. M. (Carol M.).
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: ix, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521573327; 9780521573320:.Subject(s): Psychoneuroendocrinology | Physical anthropology | Clinical health psychology | Human ecology | Hormones -- physiology | Neuroendocrinology | Behavioral Medicine | PsychophysiologyDDC classification: 306.461 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health, and behavior-- Ch. 2. Hormonal correlates of personality and social contexts: from non-human to human primates-- Ch. 3. Epidemiology of human development-- Ch. 4. Family environment, stress, and health during childhood-- Ch. 5. Work and hormonal variation in subsistence and industrial contexts-- Ch. 6. Reproductive ecology and reproductive cancers-- Ch. 7. Diet, hormones, and health: an evolutionary-ecological perspective-- Ch. 8. Modernization, psychosocial factors, insulin, and cardiovascular health.
As changes in society have been paralleled by gains in health & life expectancy through public health & other improvements, a variety of other challenges to health have emerged. This book looks at the relationship of human biology & human society.