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Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective /

Contributor(s): Grauer, Anne L, 1958- | Stuart-Macadam, Patricia, 1951-.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521620902; 9780521620901:; 9780521620901.Subject(s): Bones -- Diseases | Sex factors in disease | Archaeology | Anthropology | PaleopathologyDDC classification: 616.07
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.
Summary: This volume seeks to synthesize modern medical research with paleopathological investigations. Conditions such as osteoporosis and osteopenia, iron deficiency anaemia, infection and immune reactivity and trauma are explored.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This volume seeks to synthesize modern medical research with paleopathological investigations. Conditions such as osteoporosis and osteopenia, iron deficiency anaemia, infection and immune reactivity and trauma are explored.

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