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The war machine and global health : a critical medical anthropological examination of the human costs of armed conflict and the international violence industry / edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- War--Health aspects.
- War.
- Violence.
- Warfare.
- Armed Conflicts.
- Global Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Violence.
- Warfare.
- Armed Conflicts.
- Global Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, ©2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book of essays by medical anthropologists and other health social scientists examines the full measure of the disastrous global health effects of war in the contemporary world. It provides a political economic framework for assessing the war machine.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global Health; PART ONE. THE WAR MACHINE AND GLOBAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY; CHAPTER ONE. THE ECHOES OF WAR: Effects of Early Malnutrition on Adult Health; CHAPTER TWO. WAR AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER IN IRAQ; CHAPTER THREE. CHILDREN AND REVOLUTION: Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being of Child Soldiers in Nepal; PART TWO. THE ENVIRONMENT OF WAR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER FOUR. THE CAUSES AND HUMAN COSTS OF TARGETING IRAQ
- CHAPTER FIVE. THE IMPACT OF THE WAR MACHINE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND HEALTH: A Political-Ecological PerspectiveCHAPTER SIX. DYING OF SORROW: Expulsion, Empire, and the People of Diego Garcia; PART THREE. THE WAR MACHINE AND THE MACHINERY OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE; CHAPTER SEVEN. HASBARA, HEALTH CARE, AND THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES; CHAPTER EIGHT. WAGING WAR ON THE WAGELESS: Extrajudicial Killings, Private Armies, and the Poor of Honduras; CHAPTER NINE. OLIVE DRAB AND WHITE COATS: U.S. Military Medical Teams Interoperating with Guatemala
- CONCLUSION: The Political Economy and Critical Geography of the War MachineINDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-43590-7
- 1-282-47963-6
- 9786612479632
- 0-7591-1943-0
- OCLC:
- 657358441
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