内容简介
A growing body of literature indicates that diseases can
affect women and men differently. As sex differences extend far
beyond biology, it is crucial to adopt a bicultural approach
towards understanding human disease patterns and processes. This
book synthesizes modern medical research with paleopathological
investigations. Conditions such as osteoporosis and osteopenia,
iron deficiency anaemia, infection and immune reactivity and trauma
are explored. Recognizing the relationship between these conditions
and aspects of sex and gender in past populations assists in the
formulation of models from which modern disease processes can be
better understood. Exploring the differences will provide
provocative ideas for all those in physical anthropology,
archaeology, evolutionary biology, history of medicine and women's
studies interested in how sex and gender impacts on disease.
目 录
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: sex, gender and health status in prehistoric and
contemporary populations George J. Armelagos
2. Sex-related patterns of trauma in humans and African apes Robert
Jurmain and Lynn Kilgore
3. Osteoporosis in the bioarchaeology of women David S.
Weaver
4. Iron deficiency anaemia: exploring the difference Patricia
Stuart-Macadam
5. Sex differences in trace elements: status or self-selection?
Della Collins Cook and Kevin D. Hunt
6. Male/female immune reactivity and its implications for
interpreting evidence in human skeletal paleopathology Donald J.
Ortner
7. Infectious disease, sex and gender: the complexity of it all
Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis and Philip Boocock
8. Gender differences in health and illness among rural populations
in Latin America Thomas L. Leatherman
9. The mothers and daughters of a patrilineal civilization: the
health of females among the Late Classic Maya of Copan, Honduras
Rebecca Storey
10. A history of their own: patterns of death in a
nineteenth-century poorhouse Anne L. Grauer, Elizabeth M. McNamara
and Diane V. Houdek
11. Gender, health and activity in foragers and farmers in the
American southeast: implications for social organization in the
Georgia Bight Clark S. Larsen
Index.