The War Machine and Global Health

Herausgeber: Hodge, G. Derrick; Singer, Merrill

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical perspective of critical medical anthropology, and more broadly by the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading medical anthropologists and other health social scientists carefully examines the global effects of war, the war industry, and the international weapons trade on human health and well-being. Further, this book goes beyond offering a lively and readable account of a pressing health concern by critically analyzing the political and economic forces driving the war machine to inflict ever-increasing levels of social suffering and loss of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780759111905
• ISBN-10: 0759111901
• Artikelnr.: 27429445

Autorenporträt

Edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge - Contributions by Abigail E. Adams; Hans A. Baer; Avram Bornstein; Patrick F. Clarkin; Scott Harding; Elaine A. Hills; G Derrick Hodge; Rohit Karki; Brandon A. Kohrt; Kathryn Libal; Judith Pettigrew; Adrienne

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global
Health Part 2 Part I. The War Machine and Global Morbidity and Mortality
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. The Echoes of War: Effects of Early Malnutrition on
Adult Health Chapter 4 Chapter 2. War and the Public Health Disaster in
Iraq Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Children and Revolution: The Mental Health and
Psychosocial Wellbeing of Child Soldiers in Nepal Part 6 Part II: The
Environment of War and its Impact on the Human Environment Chapter 7
Chapter 4. The Causes and Human Costs of Targeting Iraq Chapter 8 Chapter
5. The Impact Of The War Machine On Global Warming And Health: A Political
Ecological Perspective Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Dying of Sorrow: Expulsion,
Empire, and the People of Diego Garcia Part 10 Part III: The War Machine
and the Machinery of Human Social Life Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Hasbara,
Health Care and the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories Chapter 12
Chapter 8. Waging War on the Wageless: Extrajudicial Killings, Private
Armies, and the Poor of Honduras Chapter 13 Chapter 9. Olive Drab and White
Coats: United States Military Medical Teams Interoperating with Guatemala
Chapter 14 Conclusion: The Political-Economy and Critical Geography of the
War Machine