Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates
The Biology of the Gradient
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Mark E. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-30872-2
- EAN: 9783319308722
- Produktnummer: 19858020
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'975 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße und 10 farbige Abbildungen, 10 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
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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
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