Biocultural approaches to transgender and gender diverse experience and health: Integrating biomarkers and advancing gender/sex research

LZ DuBois, JK Gibb, RP Juster… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people are increasingly visible in US communities
and in national media. With this increased visibility, access to gender affirming healthcare is …

Biological anthropology's critical engagement with genomics, evolution, race/racism, and ourselves: Opportunities and challenges to making a difference in the …

A Fuentes - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological anthropology can, and should, matter in the Anthropocene. Biological
anthropologists are interested in human biology and the human experience in a broader …

Coping mechanisms during the COVID‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa: A qualitative study

N Paredes Ruvalcaba, AW Kim… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused prolonged stress on numerous fronts.
While the acute health impacts of psychosocial stress due to the pandemic are well …

Biocultural perspectives on bioarchaeological and paleopathological evidence of past pandemics

MK Zuckerman, AG Tribble, RM Austin… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Pandemics have profoundly impacted human societies, but until relatively
recently were a minor research focus within biological anthropology, especially within …

Ecocultural or Biocultural? Towards Appropriate Terminologies in Biocultural Diversity

FM Franco - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Biocultural diversity espouses an inseparable link between biological,
cultural, and linguistic diversity. Biocultural diversity is not alone in using the term …

Human biology and the study of precarity: How the intersection of uncertainty and inequality is taking us to new extremes

MK Hoke, AM Long - American Journal of Human Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Inequality represents an extreme environment to which humans must respond. One
phenomenon that contributes to this growing extreme is precarity or the intersection of …

Childhood adversity during the post‐apartheid transition and COVID‐19 stress independently predict adult PTSD risk in urban S outh A frica: A biocultural analysis of …

AW Kim, R Said Mohamed, SA Norris… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The COVID‐19 pandemic in South Africa introduced new societal adversities and
mental health threats in a country where one in three individuals are expected to develop a …

Imperial terroir: Toward a queer molecular ecology of colonial masculinities

RWA Smith - Current Anthropology, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Accounts of White male violence in the Americas are often profoundly ahistorical. While
sociocultural analyses have sometimes framed this violence as a contemporary, emergent …

Toolkit article: approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research

Z Thayer, G Uwizeye… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Across populations, human morbidity and mortality risks generally follow clear gradients,
with socially‐disadvantaged individuals and groups tending to have higher morbidity and …

The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations

TP van Doren, L Sattenspiel - American Journal of Physical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The selective mortality hypothesis of tuberculosis after the 1918 influenza
pandemic, laid out by Noymer and colleagues, suggests that acute exposure or pre‐existing …