Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity : A Unified Approach

Sobo, Elisa J.

ISBN 10: 1611321905 / ISBN 13: 9781611321906

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity : A Unified Approach
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611321905
• ISBN 13: 9781611321906
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.654 pounds

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Synopsis

This lively text offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity for undergraduate courses in fields including anthropology, medicine, human ecology, and general education. Leading medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. Her inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important new ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines, regardless of academic background. Students learn to conceptualize human biology and culture concurrently—as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today. With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex, interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach.

About the Author

Elisa J. Sobo is professor of anthropology at San Diego State University and a clinical associate professor in the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. A leading medical anthropologist and methodologist, she is co-chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Public Policy, sits on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Medicine and Medical Anthropology, is book review editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and has served on the executive board of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Medical Committee in the UK. She publishes extensively in major social science, health care, and medical journals and is author, co-author, or co-editor of twelve books, including The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine, 2d ed, (Praeger 2010), Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research (Left Coast 2009), Child Health Services Research: Applications, Innovations, and Insights (Jossey-Bass 2003), and The Endangered Self: Managing the Social Risks of HIV (Routledge 2000).