Sex, Gender and Health Book

Preface;
1. Sex, gender and health: integrating biological and social perspectives Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt;
2. Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive? Catherine M. Hill and Helen L. Ball;
3. Gender bias in South Asia: effects on child growth and nutritional status Emily K. Rousham;
4. Sex, gender and cardiovascular disease Tessa M. Pollard;
5. Social meanings and sexual bodies: gender, sexuality and barriers to women's health care Lenore Manderson;
6. Poverty and the medicalization of motherhood Susan Brin Hyatt;
7. The vanishing woman: gender and population health Patricia A. Kaufert;
8. Agency, opposition and resistance: a systemic approach to psychological illness in sub-dominant groups Roland Littlewood.