Suchergebnisse

Anthropology and complexity -- Genetic adaptation -- Developmental adjustment and epigenetic change -- Emergence of culture and people like us -- Global expansion, human variation, and the invention of 'race' -- Foraging : a human baseline -- Agricultural revolution : another great divide -- Epidemics and immunities -- Political economy of health disparities -- Stress, meaning, and health -- Culture in practice : embodying gender -- Body ideals and outcomes -- Kinship : so relative -- Conclusion. Respecting connections.

"Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it."--Pub. desc