This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups.

• Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health care
• Considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups
• Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world
• Includes international...

Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? This book examines these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction, from the fogs of Dickens to the smog of Chandler.

Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? Dirty Words examines all of these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction, from the fogs of Dickens to the smog of Chandler, advice on how to be an environmental troublemaker, and a suggestion of our choice of futures: the world as an icebox or a greenhouse. This entertaining and provocative collection of pieces by a group of environmental experts challenges the...