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Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates

The Biology of the Gradient

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Carol A. Shively

    1. Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, WINSTON SALEM, USA

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  2. Mark E. Wilson

    1. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, ATLANTA, USA

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  • Analyzes the deleterious effects of social stress, which increases morbidity and mortality from all of the illnesses that most commonly plague humans
  • Focuses on nonhuman primate models, providing easy translation to human health concerns
  • Focuses on social inequalities in health in a species other than our own, emphasizing the biology of social class common to all, not just some races, ethnicities, or levels of education
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Relevance of Nonhuman Primate Translational Research to Understanding Social Inequalities in Health in Human Beings

    • Tanja Jovanovic
    Pages 1-8

  3. An Introduction to the Female Macaque Model of Social Subordination Stress

    • Mark E Wilson
    Pages 9-24

  4. Effects of Social Subordination on Macaque Neurobehavioral Outcomes: Focus on Neurodevelopment

    • Jodi R. Godfrey, Melanie Pincus, Mar M. Sanchez
    Pages 25-47

  5. The Effects of Social Experience on the Stress System and Immune Function in Nonhuman Primates

    • Jordan Kohn, Leonidas Panagiotakopoulos, Gretchen N. Neigh
    Pages 49-77

  6. The Influence of Social Environment on Morbidity, Mortality, and Reproductive Success in Free-Ranging Cercopithecine Primates

    • Marnie G. Silverstein-Metzler
    Pages 79-115

  7. Social Status and the Non-human Primate Brain

    • Stephanie L. Willard, Carol A. Shively
    Pages 117-139

  8. Emotional Eating in Socially Subordinate Female Rhesus Monkeys

    • Vasiliki Michopoulos
    Pages 141-158

  9. Dietary Modification of Physiological Responses to Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Implications for the Obesity Epidemic

    • Carol A. Shively, Anna Fimmel, Sara Jones, Michael Nader
    Pages 159-178
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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. both negative and positive aspects of social status. At the same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experiments and more invasive studies that can be used in human beings to examine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrine function, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological and behavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness, and are likely shared among primates, the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance our understanding of the best interventions in humans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, WINSTON SALEM, USA

    Carol A. Shively

  • Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, ATLANTA, USA

    Mark E. Wilson

About the editors

Carol Shively, Ph.D. Professor Pathology Wake Forest School of Medicine cshively@wakehealth.edu (336) 716-1524 Mark Wilson PhD, Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University mwils02@emory.edu

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