Ancient bodies, modern lives : how evolution has shaped women's health / Wenda Trevathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trevathan, Wenda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary medicine seek to answer, and that anthropologist Wenda Trevathan addresses in Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives. Exploring a range of women's health issues that may be viewed through an evolutionary lens, specifically focusing on reproduction, Trevathan delves into issues such as the medical consequences of early puberty in girls, the impact of migration, culture change, and poverty on reproductive h

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Does Evolution Have to Do with Women's Health?; 1 Are We Grown Up Yet?; 2 Vicious Cycles; 3 Getting Pregnant: Why Can't Everyone Just Get Along?; 4 Staying Pregnant; 5 Welcome to the World; 6 The Greasy, Helpless One-Hour-Old Human Newborn; 7 Women Are Defined by Their Breasts; 8 But Women Are More Than Breasts; 9 If Reproduction Is What It's All About, Why Does It Stop?; 10 What Good Are Old Women? Quite a Lot, Thank You; 11 Implications for Women's Health in the 21st Century-and Preventing the Epidemiological Collision; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045279-X

1-282-56408-0

9786612564086

0-19-975054-8

OCLC:

609861658