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Sex, Gender and Health

Tessa M Pollard editor Susan Brin Hyatt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Aug '99

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Explores differences in health experiences of boys, girls, men and women from both biological and social perspectives.

Sex, Gender and Health explains the differences in the health experiences of boys and girls, men and women. Bringing together social and biological scientists in cross-cultural perspective, it explores gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease and psychological illness for all students wishing to gain a rounded picture.It is widely recognised that men and women in societies all over the world have very different experiences of sickness and health. This collection brings together biological and social anthropologists whose work illustrates how these sub-disciplines have approached the task of explaining such differences. We demonstrate that an understanding of science and culture, using the notions of biological 'sex' and socio-culturally constructed 'gender' are both essential for furthering analyses of men's and women's, boys' and girls' experiences of health and disease. We address the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health and psychological illness, and look at how the medicalisation of women and their relative absence from models of population health might affect their experiences of preventative health measures. This book will be particularly useful for students on human sciences or anthropology courses, or anyone wishing to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on the subject.

'… extremely interesting and useful … I highly recommend it for specialists and students in many different fields, biological and social anthropology being only the first of these.' E. Godina, Journal of Biosocial Science

ISBN: 9780521592826

Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm x 15mm

Weight: 445g

188 pages