States of Disease : Political Environments and Human Health / Brian King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ecology--Health aspects--South Africa.

Social ecology.

Social ecology--Health aspects--Botswana.

AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--Government policy--South Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy--South Africa.

Environmental health--Botswana.

Environmental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability in northern Botswana. These case studies illustrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: "No One Dies of AIDS"

1. Social Ecology of Health

2. HIV Lifeways

3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics

4. Landscapes of HIV

5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems

6. States of Health

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780520962118

0520962117

OCLC:

957414259