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The five horsemen of the modern world : climate, food, water, disease, and obesity / Daniel Callahan.
LIBRA RA418 .C35 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- World health.
- Environmental health.
- Public Health.
- Ecosystem.
- Environmental Health.
- Global Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health.
- Ecosystem.
- Environmental Health.
- Global Health.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Our overheating, fraying planet
- Feeding a growing population : how, and with what kind of food?
- Water : not everywhere and not always fit to drink
- Chronic illness : rich or poor, few escape
- Obesity : the scourge of bad diets and sedentary habits
- Always more people and ever more elderly : caring and paying
- The technology fix : a way out?
- A volatile mix : public policy, the media, and public policy
- Law and governance : managing our public planet and our private bodies
- Progress and its errant children : more is never enough
- The necessary coalition : social movements, legislatures, and business.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231170024
- 0231170025
- OCLC:
- 920806540
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