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Health and Ethnicity (Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology)
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Product Description
This book discusses the factors at work in the frequencies of certain diseases and how they effect different ethnic groups. The first time these issues have been discussed by biomedical scientists and social scientists in one volume.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #490209 in Books
- Published on: 2001-02-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'I don't know of any books on the subject, even though there is a considerable need for one.' - Ian Morris, The Wellcome Trust, UK
'... has lots of potential. The topic couldn't be more timely. Dr Macbeth can bring it off successfully.' - Ken Weiss, Penn State University, USA
From the Back Cover
It In modern multicultural societies, the topic of 'health and ethnicity' has become increasingly recognized as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in specialist literature of different disciplines; a book bringing these perspectives together has so far been lacking.
The aim of the book is to explain the diversity in health experience due to determinants and factors that can be described as 'ethnic'. Both 'ethnicity' and 'health' are words that have stimulated semantic debate, and yet too seldom is sufficient sensitivity given over to the complexity of the issue. The biological complexity in understanding ethnic factors contributing to measurable pathologies lies in the interaction of genetic variation and lifestyle differences. Diversity in both of these is found within and between cultural subgroups of larger social and geographic categories. Differences range from diet and other consupmtions to traditional remedies, from religious beliefs to marriage patterns, from exercise to clothing, and much more. Additionally, psychological and socioeconomic correlates of ethnic status are deeply intertwined with the well-being of the individual.
Coverage of this topic has grown in both academic and popular writing, but none before have included authors from the medical, social and biological sciences. This volume allows biomedical and social scientists to discuss the issue of health and ethinicity alongside each other.
About the Author
Macbeth; Helen Oxford Brookes University, England, UK,Shetty; Prakash London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK,
