Health in the Anthropocene : living well on a finite planet / edited by Katharine Zywert and Stephen Quilley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zywert, Katharine, editor.

Quilley, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Social aspects.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers novel frameworks for living well on a finite planet. Rather than directing readers to more sustainable ways to structure health systems, Health in the Anthropocene navigates the transition toward social-ecological systems that can support long-term human and environmental health, which requires broad shifts in thought and action, not only in formal health-related fields, but in our economic models, agriculture and food systems, ontologies, and ethics. Arguing that population health will largely be decided at the intersection of experimental social innovations and appropriate technologies, this volume calls readers to turn their attention toward social movements, practices, and ways of living that build resilience for an era of systemic change. Drawing on diverse disciplines and methodologies from fields including anthropology, ecological economics, sociology, and public health, Health in the Anthropocene maps out alternative pathways that have the potential to sustain human wellbeing and ecological integrity over the long term.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Individual or Community as a Frame of Reference for Health in Modernity and in the Anthropocene

2. “Regional Overload” as an Indicator of Profound Risk: A Plea for the Public Health Community to Awaken

3. Medicine and Health Care in the Anthropocene: Who Pays and Why?

4. Anthropocene Health Economics: Preparing for the Journey or the Destination?

5. What about My Pineapples? The Wicked Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social Goals

6. Imagining Health Systems 150 Years from Now: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health

7. A Changing Role for Public Health in the Anthropocene: The Contribution of Scenario Thinking for Reimagining the Future

8. The Role of Grassroots Social Movements as Agents of Change for Societal Transformation: The Example of the Transition Movement

9. “Food as Thy Medicine”: How Ecovillages Foster Population and Planetary Health through Regenerative Food Systems

10. Care Farming: Making a Meaningful Connection between Agriculture, Health Care, and Society

11. Grieving Nature – Grieving in Nature: The Place of Parks and Natural Places in Palliative and Grief Care

12. Nature as Partner: Rethinking Intersectoral Action for Health in the Anthropocene Era

13. The Soil Sponge: Collaborating with the Work of Other Species to Improve Public Health, Climate Change, and Resilience

14. Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene: Tenets of a Meta-medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems in Precarious Times

15. Our Affluence Is Killing Us: What Degrowth Offers Health and Well-Being

16. Nurturing Ecological Consciousness

17. Bodies of the Anthropocene: Health, Ontology, Ecology

18. The Exploration of Socioecological Approaches and Indicators in the Anthropocene

19. Coming Back to Our True Nature: What Is the Inner Work That Supports Transition?

20. Death Denial in the Anthropocene

21. To Become Ancestors of a Living Future

Conclusion – Pursuing Health in the Anthropocene: A Synthesis of Current and Future Research Priorities

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3342-X

1-4875-3341-1

OCLC:

1132422329