Table of Contents

The ecology of health and disease; interdisciplinary research in health problems; the meaning of adaptation; changing patterns of birth, disease, and death; the ecology and economics of nutrition; nutrition throughout the life cycle; stress and disease; health repercussions of culture contact; health costs of modernization.

About the Author

Ann McElroy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York at Buffalo, where Patricia K. Townsend is a Research Associate Professor. Ann McElroy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York at Buffalo, where Patricia K. Townsend is a Research Associate Professor.