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The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology is an annual peer-reviewed supplement of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. It provides "broad but thorough coverage of developments within the discipline" of physical anthropology.
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:59- 110. AH Goodman, RB Thomas, AC Swedlund, and GJ Armelagos. (1988) Biocultural Perspectives on Stress in Prehistoric, Historical, and Contemporary Population Research.] Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 31: 169–202. GJ Armelagos and AH Goodman. (1985) Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds.
Spirituality has been ascribed many different definitions in different contexts, but a general definition is: an individual's search for meaning and purpose in life. . Spirituality is distinct from organized religion in that spirituality does not necessarily need a religious fr
Biological Anthropology looks different today from the way it did even twenty years ago. Even the name is relatively new, having been 'physical anthropology' for over a century, with some practitioners still applying that term. [2] Biological anthropologists look back to the work of Charles Darwin as a major foundation for what they do today ...
Handbook of Religion and Health is a scholarly book about the relation of spirituality and religion with physical and mental health. Written by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson, the first edition was published in the United States in 2001.
Previously, the AAPA had published an official position on biological aspects of race, based on evidence from anthropological (as well as biological, genetic, and social scientific) research in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 101, pp 569–570, 1996. That statement emphasized that all humans belong to a single species and ...
Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". [1] It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. [ 2 ]
In medical anthropology, naturalistic disease theories are those theories, present within a culture, which explain diseases and illnesses in impersonal terms.George Foster explains naturalistic disease theory as following an "equilibrium model" in which health results from ideal balances of well being appropriate to one's age, condition, and environment.