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• catalog abstract ""Iron deficiency is recognized throughout the world as a major public health concern, particularly in developing countries. Among its functional consequences are reduced resistance to infection, increased morbidity and mortality, impaired learning and behavior, lower physical capacity and productivity, and increased susceptibility to cold. It is not, however, only the domain of nutritional biologists and of medical researchers. The skeletal evidence from archaeological excavations suggests that iron deficiency anemia was equally common in the past, thus making it of interest to paleoanthropology and paleopathology. That entire tribes present chronic iron deficiency makes it a phenomenon of interest to current anthropology as well." "Traditionally this condition has been attributed in large part to dietary factors, but there is evidence in both the skeletal record and in hematological analysis of living populations that acquired iron deficiency can derive from factors other than diet. Recognizing that the subject lends itself to multiple perspectives that can more comprehensively address the multi-factorial nature of iron deficiency anemia, the editors have assembled the present volume, the first of its kind. Among the contributors are leading researchers in a number of disciplines: ethnography, archaeology, physical anthropology, microbiology, and medicine. Together, these contributions serve to challenge the conventional views of the relationship between health, disease, and iron; of the symptomatic role of low iron levels; of cultural imperatives related to diet, such as daily meat intake; and of prescribed iron fortification." "This collection will stimulate controversy and further research within medical anthropology, and among public health officials, epidemiologists, hematologists, and medical sociologists."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b4961413.
• catalog contributor b4961414.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description ""Iron deficiency is recognized throughout the world as a major public health concern, particularly in developing countries. Among its functional consequences are reduced resistance to infection, increased morbidity and mortality, impaired learning and behavior, lower physical capacity and productivity, and increased susceptibility to cold. It is not, however, only the domain of nutritional biologists and of medical researchers. The skeletal evidence from archaeological excavations suggests that iron deficiency anemia was equally common in the past, thus making it of interest to paleoanthropology and paleopathology. That entire tribes present chronic iron deficiency makes it a phenomenon of interest to current anthropology as well." "Traditionally this condition has been attributed in large part to dietary factors, but there is evidence in both the skeletal record and in hematological analysis of living populations that acquired iron deficiency can derive from factors other than diet. Recognizing that the subject lends itself to multiple perspectives that can more comprehensively address the multi-factorial nature of iron deficiency anemia, the editors have assembled the present volume, the first of its kind. Among the contributors are leading researchers in a number of disciplines: ethnography, archaeology, physical anthropology, microbiology, and medicine. Together, these contributions serve to challenge the conventional views of the relationship between health, disease, and iron; of the symptomatic role of low iron levels; of cultural imperatives related to diet, such as daily meat intake; and of prescribed iron fortification." "This collection will stimulate controversy and further research within medical anthropology, and among public health officials, epidemiologists, hematologists, and medical sociologists."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Anemia through the ages / Susan Kent -- The iron-deficiency anemias and their skeletal manifestations / Stanly M. Garn -- Physiological, pathological and dietary influences on the hemoglobin level / G.R. Wadsworth -- Iron withholding in prevention of disease -- Anemia in past human populations / Patricia Stuart-Macadam -- A hematological study of !Kung Kalahari foragers / Susan Kent and Richard Lee -- Porotic hyperostosis in prehistoric Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Patterns of diet, parasitism and anemia in prehistoric west North America / Karl J. Reinhard -- Anemia reevaluated / Patricia Stuart-Macadam.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "viii, 285 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0202011895 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Foundations of human behavior".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Aldine de Gruyter,".
• catalog subject "616.1/52 20".
• catalog subject "Anemia diet therapy.".
• catalog subject "Anemia epidemiology.".
• catalog subject "Anemia history.".
• catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical.".
• catalog subject "Deficiency Diseases History.".
• catalog subject "Deficiency Diseases epidemiology.".
• catalog subject "Demography.".
• catalog subject "Iron deficiency anemia.".
• catalog subject "Paleopathology.".
• catalog subject "Physical anthropology.".
• catalog subject "RA645.I75 D54 1992".
• catalog subject "WH 155 D565 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Anemia through the ages / Susan Kent -- The iron-deficiency anemias and their skeletal manifestations / Stanly M. Garn -- Physiological, pathological and dietary influences on the hemoglobin level / G.R. Wadsworth -- Iron withholding in prevention of disease -- Anemia in past human populations / Patricia Stuart-Macadam -- A hematological study of !Kung Kalahari foragers / Susan Kent and Richard Lee -- Porotic hyperostosis in prehistoric Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Patterns of diet, parasitism and anemia in prehistoric west North America / Karl J. Reinhard -- Anemia reevaluated / Patricia Stuart-Macadam.".
• catalog title "Diet, demography, and disease : changing perspectives on anemia / Patricia Stuart-Macadam and Susan Kent, editors.".
• catalog type "text".