Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects) - Hardcover

 
9783319308708: Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

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This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and rank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. At the same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experiments and more invasive studies that can be used in human beings to examine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrine function, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological and behavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness, and are likely shared among primates, the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance our understanding of the best interventions in humans.

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Carol Shively, Ph.D. Professor Pathology Wake Forest School of Medicine cshively@wakehealth.edu (336) 716-1524 Mark Wilson PhD, Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University mwils02@emory.edu

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This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and rank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. At the same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experiments and more invasive studies that can be used in human beings to examine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrine function, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological and behavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness, and are likely shared among primates, the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance our understanding of the best interventions in humans.

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9783319809045: Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)

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ISBN 10:  3319809040 ISBN 13:  9783319809045
Verlag: Springer, 2018
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