Ecologies and Politics of Health

ISBN-13: 9780415590662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 298 str.

Brian King; Kelley Crews

Opis

This work brings together contributions from the natural and social sciences to examine the social and environmental dimensions of human health.

Recenzje

"It is definitely a volume worth reading. As I read, I reflected on the voices of the medical geographers who informed me as a graduate student more than three decades ago: John Hunter, Charles Good, Robert Roundy, Melinda Meade, and later, Jon Mayer and a myriad of others. With the exception of Mayer, those authors shared a rural, largely infectious disease focus in much of their work. Although King and Crews outline some of the shortcomings of earlier medical geography, geography has a long tradition of exploring the health implications of human–environment interactions." – AAG Review of Books, East-West Center, USA

Spis treści

Foreword.  1. Human Health at the Nexus of Ecologies and Politics  Section 1: Health within Social and Ecological Systems  2. Positioning Health in a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework  3. Capitals and Context: Bridging Health and Livelihoods in Smallholder Frontiers  4. Change in Tropical Landscapes: Implications for Health and Livelihoods  Section 2: Empirical Approaches to Injury and Infectious Disease  5. Buruli Ulcer Disease: The Unknown Environmental and Social Ecology of a Bacterial Pathogen  6. The Ecology of Injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh  7. Human Settlement, Environmental Change, and Frontier Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon  Section 3: Disease Histories, the State, and [Mis]Management  8. Vaccines, Fertility, and Power: The Political Ecology of Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Lowland Latin America  9. Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis: Eradication, Control, and Coexistence in Africa  10. Geographies of HIV and Marginalization: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Risk among Mayan Communities in Western Belize  11. The Mosquito State: How Technology, Capital and State Practice Mediate the Ecologies of Public Health  Section 4: Health Vulnerabilities  12. Exposure to Heat Stress in Urban Environments  13. Power, Race, and the Neglect of Science: The HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa  14. Disease as Shock, HIV/AIDS as Experience: Coupling Social and Ecological Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa  15. Futures for Ecologies and Politics of Health