Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social perspectives
- 2 Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive?
- 3 Gender bias in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status
- 4 Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease
- 5 Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care
- 6 Poverty and the medicalisation of motherhood
- 7 The vanishing woman: gender and population health
- 8 Agency, opposition and resistance: a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups
- Glossary
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social perspectives
- 2 Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive?
- 3 Gender bias in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status
- 4 Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease
- 5 Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care
- 6 Poverty and the medicalisation of motherhood
- 7 The vanishing woman: gender and population health
- 8 Agency, opposition and resistance: a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups
- Glossary
- Index
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- Sex, Gender and Health , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999