A companion to the anthropology of environmental health / edited by Merrill Singer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singer, Merrill, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 30.

Blackwell Companions to Anthropology ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health.

Public health--Anthropological aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (539 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. * Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments * Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists * Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation that accompany environmental and ecological impacts in all areas of the world * Offers critical perspectives on theoretical and methodological advancements in the anthropology of environmental health, along with future directions in the field

Contents:

Eco-social and environmental justice perspectives on breast cancer : responding to capitalism's ill effects / Mary Anglin

Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet / Melissa K. Melby

Towards more-than-human health promotion : enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology / Melanie Rock

Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions : lessons from obesity / Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff

Environmental racism and community health / Melissa Checker

Alternative medicine and political ecologies of the body / Joseph S. Alter

Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in the Netherlands / Helen Kopnina

Washing away ebola : environmental stress, rumor, and ethnomedical response in a deadly epidemic / Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann

Aesthetics of nature, environmental risk, and the practice of Lyme Disease prevention in the United States / Abigail Dumes

Ecobiopolitics in the making of Native American reservation health inequities / Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge

Water, environment, and health : now you see it, now you don't / Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen

Remembering the foundations of health : everyday water insecurity and its hidden costs in Northwest Alaska / Laura Eichelberger

Food security : health and environmental concerns in the north / Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen

The political ecology of vapor intrusion risk : local-global dynamics of an emerging environmental health problem / Peter C. Little

The political ecology of cause and blame : from distal drivers to local re-engagement / Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson

Environment, food, and drugs : the intricate effects of khat / Lisa Gezon

Reestablishing the fundamental bases for environmental health : infrastructure and the socio-topographies of surviving seismic disaster / Stephanie C. Kane

Modifying our microbial environment : from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics / Kristin Harper and George Armelagos

China's cancer villages : contested evidence and the politics of pollution / Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen

Mining and its health consequences : from matewan to fracking / Elizabeth Cartwright

Pluralea interactions and the remaking of the environment in environmental health / Merrill Singer

Private cars as environmental health hazards : the critical need for public transit in the era of climate change / Hans A Baer

Health and the Anthropocene : mounting concern about tick-borne disease interactions / Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118786925

1118786920

9781786848796

1786848791

9781119096658

1119096650

9781118787137

1118787137

OCLC:

933219164