(PhD)
Professor/ Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care
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Decker School of Nursing
Binghamton University
Phone: (607) 777-6016
E-mail: gdjames@binghamton.edu
Gary James is a Professor at the Decker School of Nursing. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University, 1984. Dr. James is also a Professor of Anthropology and is the Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care (IPPH). He is a human population biologist whose research focuses on physiological and endocrinological adaptations to the dynamic stresses of everyday life and the relation of these responses to the development of chronic diseases. His investigations in Polynesia and among urban women in New York City have included studies of how behavior and the psychosocial environment affect blood pressure and vasoactive hormone variation. He also has interests in women's health issues, the biobehavioral and health consequences of modernization, natural experimental approaches to the study of disease and evolutionary medicine. Further biographical information and bibliography can be found at the IPPH and Biomedical Anthropology Program websites.
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