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Global warming and the political ecology of health : emerging crises and systemic solutions / Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer.
Penn Museum Library RA793 .G565 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Hans A., 1944-
- Series:
- Advances in critical medical anthropology ; v. 1.
- Advances in critical medical anthropology ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global warming--Health aspects.
- Global warming.
- Medical anthropology.
- Greenhouse Effect.
- Environmental Exposure.
- Environmental Health--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Greenhouse Effect.
- Environmental Exposure.
- Environmental Health--economics.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease. They also go beyond the traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, land use, and lifeways, throwing the sociopolitical and economic dimensionas of climate change into stark relief. Revealing the systemic structures of inequality underlying global warming, they also issue a call to action, arguing that fundamental changes in the world system are essential to the mitigation of an array of emerging health crises linked to anthropogenic climate and environmental change.
- Contents:
- Global warming : a grave contradiction of the capitalist world system
- Lifeways in peril : the impact of global warming on settlement patterns and human perceptions of climate
- An age of weather extremes : consequences for human subsistence, water, and nutrition
- A disturbed planet : heat stress, pollutants, and environmental diseases
- Agents of suffering : the spread of waterborne and vector-borne infections
- Ecosyndemics : the interaction of changing environment and disease
- Adaptation verus mitigation : why existing climate regimes and "green capitalism" are not enough to contain global warming
- Toward a healthier planet : the creation of a democratic ecosocialist world system.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781598743531
- 1598743538
- 9781598743548
- 1598743546
- OCLC:
- 227015872
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