Hormones, Health and Behaviour
A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective

Hormones, Health and Behavior looks at the relationship of human biology and human society at the intersection of behavior, hormones and health.

Catherine Panter-Brick (Edited by), Carol M. Worthman (Edited by)

9780521103756, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2008

304 pages, 60 b/w illus. 14 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

"This book represents fine contemporary scholarship in biological anthropology, and I will be using the opening chapter as required reading in anthropology graduate classes. But perhaps the greatest value of this book is in communicating exciting developments in anthropology to researchers interested in development, health, and human biology." The Quarterly Review of Biology

As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of other challenges to health have emerged, particularly in lifestyle related, behaviourally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease. Hormones, Health and Behavior looks at the relationship of human biology and human society at the intersection of behavior, hormones and health. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socio-ecological view of function and well-being has become more apparent. This book documents an emerging understanding of how hormones create linkage between behavior or social life and health. It will inform graduate students and researchers interested in human sciences, human development, anthropology, epidemiology, public environmental and reproductive health.

1. Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health and behavior C. Panter-Brick and C. M. Worthman
2. Hormonal correlates of personality and social contexts: from non-human to human primates R. M. Sapolsky
3. Epidemiology of human development C. M. Worthman
4. Family environment, stress and health during childhood M. V. Flinn
5. Work and hormonal variation in subsistence and industrial contexts C. Panter-Brick and T. M. Pollard
6. Reproductive ecology and reproductive cancers P. T. Ellison
7. Diet, hormones and health: an evolutionary-ecological perspective P. L. Whitten
8. Modernisation, psychosocial factors, insulin and cardiovascular health S. T. McGarvey
Index.

Subject Areas: Human biology [PSX], Endocrinology [MJG]