Global warming and the political ecology of health
Subtitle: emerging crises and systemic solutions
By: Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer.
Contributors: Baer, Hans A., 1944-; Singer, Merrill.
Series: Advances in critical medical anthropology -- v. 1
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781598743531; 9781598743548
Subjects: Global warming -- Health aspects; Medical anthropology; Greenhouse Effect; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health -- economics
Description: Analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health. Inventories and analyzes the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Uses a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, to present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease. Goes beyond the traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patters, land-use, and lifeways, throwing the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of climate change into stark relief. Reveals the systemic structures of inequality underlying global warming and issues a call to action, arguing that fundamental changes in the world system are essential to the mitigation of an array of emerging health crises link to anthropogenic climate and environmental change. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Global warming : a grave contradiction of the capitalist world system; title: Lifeways in peril : the impact of global warming on lifeways and settlement patterns; title: An age of extremes : consequences for human subsistence, water, and nutrition; title: A disturbed planet : heat stress, pollutants, and environmental diseases; title: Agents of suffering : the spread of vector-borne and water-borne infections; title: Ecosyndemics : the interaction of changing environment and disease; title: Adaptation verus mitigation : why existing climate regimes and "green capitalism" are not enough to contain global warming; title: Toward a healthier planet : the creation of a democratic eco-socialist world system.