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Sex, Gender and Health
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June 1, 2002
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Sex, Gender and Health, edited by Tessa M. Pollard and Susan Brin Hyatt. Biosocial Society Symposium Series, Vol. 11. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 170 pp. Hardback $54.95; paperback $19.95.
From the beginning of Sex, Gender and Health, it is not clear whether the aim of the edited volume is to show how anthropologists explain differences in the health experiences of men and women (first sentence) or whether the aim is to show why the differences in health experience exist (second sentence). This confusion (are facts produced or uncovered?) highlights the difficulty of achieving the book's second aim: to bring social and biological anthropologists together. "Too often ...
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