In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease. They also go beyond the traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, land-use, and...
In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critic...
Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences.
Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global war...
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded abortion care. Situating their access in the context of austerity and threats to recently liberalized abortion laws, the book examines the actual level of access, disparities in access between communities, and the diverse approaches adopted to overcome obstacles to abortion care. Accounts from both abortion providers and women seeking care are contextualized by Ostrach s richly grounded analysis of what they reveal about healthcare systems...
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded ...
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded abortion care. Situating their access in the context of austerity and threats to recently liberalized abortion laws, the book examines the actual level of access, disparities in access between communities, and the diverse approaches adopted to overcome obstacles to abortion care. Accounts from both abortion providers and women seeking care are contextualized by Ostrach s richly grounded analysis of what they reveal about healthcare systems...
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded ...
Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccines in 19th-century Britain and America to more recent intransigence to efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Central and West Africa.
Thinking through Resistance examines a diverse range of case studies of opposition to biomedical public health policies - from resistance to HPV vaccinations in Texas to disputes over HIV prevention research in Malawi - to assess the root causes of opposition. It is argued that far from being...
Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...
