Sex, Gender and Health [Hardcover]

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. It differs from other texts in bringing together social and biological scientists, improving communication between them. It addresses the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health and psychological illness. Its international and cross-cultural perspective will make it particularly useful for students on interdisciplinary human sciences or anthropology courses.Sex, Gender and Health explains the differences in the health experiences of boys and girls, men and women. It differs from other texts in bringing together social and biological scientists, improving communication between them. It addresses the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health and psychological illness. Its international and cross-cultural perspective will make it particularly useful for students on interdisciplinary human sciences or anthropology courses.It is widely recognized 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 subdisciplines have approached the task of explaining such differences. It demonstrates 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. It addresses the important topics of gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health, and psychological illness, and looks at how the medicalization of women and their relative absence from models of population health might aflót