title: Toward an ecology of women's reproductive health.
abstract: Medical ecology has been one of the dominant theoretical strands in medical anthropology since the 1960s. It has come to be identified with a rather narrow range of research issues, concerning such matters as adaptation to climate and infectious disease, and has dealt with small-scale foraging societies. An ecological model has potential for dealing broadly with other health issues, in the case explored here, women's reproductive health, a topic that has frequently been approached from either a cultural or biological standpoint rather than the integrated one advocated here.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York, Buffalo.
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McElroy
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology; D015982:Bias; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004463:Ecology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012098:Reproduction; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012931:Social Environment; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D016387:Women's Health; D016526:Workload