Sex, Gender and Health

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

Affect (linguistics) · Disease · Health care · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Subject (documents) · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Congresses · Cross-cultural studies · Cultural Anthropology · Disease susceptibility · Health · Medical anthropology · Prejudice · Prejudices · Sex differences · Sex Factors · Women's Health

• Gender asymmetry in healthcare-facility attendance of people living with HIV/Aids in Burkina Faso

  Open Access•Blandine Bila, Marc Egrot•Social Science & Medicine•2009

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• How might we understand men's health better? Integrating explanations from critical studies on men and inequalities in health

  Open Access•Maria Lohan•Social Science & Medicine•2007

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• Women, men and food

  Open Access•Alan Beardsworth, Alan Bryman et al.•British Food Journal•2002

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• Gender, Health, and Mortality

  Open Access•Ulla Larsen•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2007

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• Bayes' theorem in paleopathological diagnosis

  Open Access•Steven N Byers, Charlotte A Roberts•American Journal of Physical…•2003

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• Visceral Difference

  Open Access•Allison Hayes-Conroy, Jessica Hayes-Conroy•Environment and Planning A…•2010

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• A "Consumer's Right" to Choose a Midwife

  Open Access•Christa Craven•American Anthropologist•2007

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• Gender schema and prostate cancer

  James P Stansbury, Marianne Mathewson-Chapman et al.•Medical Anthropology•2003

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• The woman in the body

  Emily Martin•The woman in the body•1989

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• Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

  Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore•Gender and the Social Construction…•2002

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• Excess female mortality in rural Somalia-Is inequality in the household a risk factor

  Open Access•Abdulaziz Sharif Aden, Maymuna M Omar et al.•Social Science & Medicine•1997

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• Primate Visions

  Donna J Haraway•Primate Visions•2013

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• Gender and Health

  Theodore D Fuller, J N Edwards et al.•Journal of Health and Social…•1993

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• Parenting Skills

  Open Access•J Edwards•Journal of Social Policy•1995

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