Books in the Biosocial Society Symposium Series series

Medical, environmental and social changes have all profoundly affected human reproduction. This book discusses some of the more dramatic changes in an accessible manner, illustrating the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility and providing a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the subject.

Sex, Gender and Health explains the differences in the health experiences of boys and girls, men and women. Bringing together social and biological scientists in cross-cultural perspective, it explores gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease and psychological illness for all students wishing to gain a rounded picture.

Human Population Dynamics is an introductory text demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As such, it contains contributions from specialists in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecology and human geography. This text is aimed at academic researchers, graduates and undergraduates.

Learning from HIV/AIDS brings together perspectives from different disciplines to assess what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and what methodological and theoretical advances have arisen from studying it. It presents a holistic overview of the disease and identifies why unidisciplinary interventions for HIV prevention have failed.

Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. This book offers an exploration of both the biological and social science perspectives of childhood in cultures in many parts of the world. Students and scholars interested in children and childhood will find it of value.

This 2001 volume presents reviews from a variety of disciplines to give a broad-brush view of diverse hunter-gatherer groups. Presenting issues from both the social and biological sciences, it will serve as a useful reference text for all those interested in social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and human sciences.

Human Population Dynamics is an introductory text demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As such, it contains contributions from specialists in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecology and human geography. This text is aimed at academic researchers, graduates and undergraduates.

Sex, Gender and Health explains the differences in the health experiences of boys and girls, men and women. Bringing together social and biological scientists in cross-cultural perspective, it explores gender differences in parental care, cardiovascular disease and psychological illness for all students wishing to gain a rounded picture.

Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. This book offers an exploration of both the biological and social science perspectives of childhood in cultures in many parts of the world. Students and scholars interested in children and childhood will find it of value.

Medical, environmental and social changes have all profoundly affected human reproduction. This book discusses some of the more dramatic changes in an accessible manner, illustrating the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility and providing a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the subject.

This 2001 volume presents reviews from a variety of disciplines to give a broad-brush view of diverse hunter-gatherer groups. Presenting issues from both the social and biological sciences, it will serve as a useful reference text for all those interested in social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and human sciences.