Human biology and social inequality / edited by S.S. Strickland and P.S. Shetty.

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Human biology and social inequity / Simon Strickland and Prakash Shetty -- Social inequalities and health in the contemporary world : comparative overview / Sally Macintyre -- Accumulation of health risks across social groups in a national longitudinal study / Chris Power and Sharon Matthews -- Equity, social cohesion and health / Richard G. Wilkinson -- Growth and maturation problems of children and social inequality during economic liberalization in central and eastern Europe / Ottó G. Eiben -- Social inequalities in the re-emergence of infectious disease / John D.H. Porter and Jessica A. Ogden -- Environmental health, social inequality and biological differences / Lawrence M. Schell and Stefan A. Czerwinski -- Educational potential and attainment : long-term implications of childhood undernutrition / Sara Stinson -- Affluence in developing countries and natural selection in humans / Kerin O'Dea -- Physical activity, sport, social status and Darwinian fitness / Robert M. Malina -- Biological correlates of social and geographic mobility in humans : an overview / C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor -- How female reproductive decisions cause social inequality in male reproductive fitness : evidence from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / Eckart Voland and Athanasios Chasiotis -- Environmental constraints, social inequality and reproductive success : a case-study in Morocco / Emile Crognier -- Emergence of health and social inequalities in the archaeological record / Mark Nathan Cohen -- Eugenics and population policies / A.H. Bittles and Y-Y. Chew -- Policy implications of health inequalities in developing countries / Carolyn Stephens -- Policy options for managing health inequalities in industrial and post-industrial countries / Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Michael G. Marmot

Includes bibliographic references and index