The war machine and global health
Subtitle: a critical medical anthropological examination of the human costs of armed conflict and the international violence industry
By: edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge.
Contributors: Singer, Merrill.; Hodge, G. Derrick, 1968-
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759111905
Subjects: War -- Health aspects; World health; World Health; Violence; War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The echoes of war : effects of early malnutrition on adult health / Patrick F. Clarkin; title: War and the public health disaster in Iraq / Scott Harding and Kathryn Libal; title: Children and revolution : the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of child soldiers in Nepal / Brandon A. Kohrt ... [et al.]; title: The causes and human costs of targeting Iraq / Elaine A. Hills and Dahlia S. Wasfi; title: The impact of the war machine on global warming and health : a political ecological perspective / Hans Baer; title: Dying of sorrow : expulsion, empire, and the people of Diego Garcia / David Vine; title: Hasbara, health care, and the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories / Avram Bornstein; title: Waging war on the wageless : extrajudicial killings, private armies, and the poor of Honduras / Adrienne Pine; title: Olive drab and white coats : United States military medical teams interoperating with Guatemala / Abagail E. Adams.