Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables x
5. List of Boxes xii
6. Foreword. Framing Health, Risk, and Adversity xiii
7. Introduction. Health, Risk, and Adversity: A Contextual View from Anthropology 1
8. PART I • HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASE IN TRANSITION
9. Understanding Health: Past and Present 13
10. 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary Interactions 26
11. 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-Borne Zoonoses 52
12. 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability, and the Next Pandemic 78
13. PART II • GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE
14. Thinking about Health through Time and Across Generations 101
15. 4. Adaptation, Health, and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive Physiology 108
16. 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An Intergenerational Comparison Among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom 129
17. 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “Hidden Risk” 150
18. PART III • GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH
19. Explaining Health Inequalities 175
20. 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 185
21. 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health 209
22. 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate Inequalities 236
23. Conclusion. Adversity, Risk, and Health: A View from Public Health 256
24. Contributors 273
25. Glossary 278
26. Index 287