Overview
Examines how social scientists and human biologists measure a wide range of phenomena across the lifespan
Discusses various phenomena experienced throughout the human lifespan?
Takes a broad approach to the discussion of measuring human experience
Discusses the variability in the relationship between self-reports and biological markers?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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About this book
This volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including pain, stress, activity levels, sleep quality, memory, and menopausal hot flashes - that have traditionally relied upon self-reports, but are subject to inter-individual differences in self-awareness or culture-based expectations. The volume also examines other ways in which normally “invisible” phenomena can be made visible, such as the caloric content of foods, blood pressure, fecundity, growth, nutritional status, genotypes, and bone health. All of the chapters in this book address the means by which social scientists and human biologists measure subjective and objective experience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel E. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has utilized self-reports and biological markers of stress in his studies on immigration and ethnic health disparities. He is the former President of the Human Biology Association and an elected Fellow of the AAAS. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as well as coauthor of Fundamentals of Human Ecology (1998) and author of Human Biological Diversity: An Introduction to Human Biology (2010), both published by Prentice-Hall.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biological Measures of Human Experience across the Lifespan
Book Subtitle: Making Visible the Invisible
Editors: Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Daniel E. Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44103-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44101-6Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82983-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44103-0Published: 21 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 336
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology