Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates The Biology of the Gradient /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shively, Carol A. (Editor), Wilson, Mark E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human physiology.; Animal physiology.; Neurobiology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Health psychology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Human Physiology.; Health Psychology.

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. bot...