Mark E. (Hrsg.) Wilson

Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates

The Biology of the Gradient

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This book provides a comprehensive look atnonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housedmonkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure andrank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. Atthe same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experimentsand more invasive studies that can be used inhuman beings toexamine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrinefunction, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological andbehavioral substrat… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Shively, Carol A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-80904-5
EAN: 9783319809045
Produktnummer: 28480099
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.0 cm 289 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 289

Über den Autor

Carol Shively, Ph.D. Professor PathologyWake Forest School of Medicinecshively@wakehealth.edu(336) 716-1524Mark Wilson PhD, ProfessorDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesEmory Universitymwils02@emory.edu