A companion to the anthropology of environmental health
By: edited by Merrill Singer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chichester, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118786994
Subjects: Environmental health; Anthropological aspects; Public health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eco-social and environmental justice perspectives on breast cancer : responding to capitalism's ill effects / Mary Anglin; title: Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet / Melissa K. Melby; title: Towards more-than-human health promotion : enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology / Melanie Rock; title: Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions : lessons from obesity / Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff; title: Environmental racism and community health / Melissa Checker; title: Alternative medicine and political ecologies of the body / Joseph S. Alter; title: Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in the Netherlands / Helen Kopnina; title: Washing away ebola : environmental stress, rumor, and ethnomedical response in a deadly epidemic / Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann; title: Aesthetics of nature, environmental risk, and the practice of Lyme Disease prevention in the United States / Abigail Dumes; title: Ecobiopolitics in the making of Native American reservation health inequities / Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge; title: Water, environment, and health : now you see it, now you don't / Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen; title: Remembering the foundations of health : everyday water insecurity and its hidden costs in Northwest Alaska / Laura Eichelberger; title: Food security : health and environmental concerns in the north / Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen; title: The political ecology of vapor intrusion risk : local-global dynamics of an emerging environmental health problem / Peter C. Little; title: The political ecology of cause and blame : from distal drivers to local re-engagement / Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson; title: Environment, food, and drugs : the intricate effects of khat / Lisa Gezon; title: Reestablishing the fundamental bases for environmental health : infrastructure and the socio-topographies of surviving seismic disaster / Stephanie C. Kane; title: Modifying our microbial environment : from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics / Kristin Harper and George Armelagos; title: China's cancer villages : contested evidence and the politics of pollution / Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen; title: Mining and its health consequences : from matewan to fracking / Elizabeth Cartwright; title: Pluralea interactions and the remaking of the environment in environmental health / Merrill Singer; title: Private cars as environmental health hazards : the critical need for public transit in the era of climate change / Hans A Baer; title: Health and the Anthropocene : mounting concern about tick-borne disease interactions / Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer.