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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. * Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments * Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists…mehr
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. * Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments * Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists * Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation that accompany environmental and ecological impacts in all areas of the world * Offers critical perspectives on theoretical and methodological advancements in the anthropology of environmental health, along with future directions in the field
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 536
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781118786925
- Artikelnr.: 44990984
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 536
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781118786925
- Artikelnr.: 44990984
Merrill Singer is Professor of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut. He has published more than 275 articles and book chapters, and authored or edited 29 books. Dr. Singer is a recipient of the Rudolph Virchow Professional Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association and the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group's Distinguished Service Award.
Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Merrill Singer Part I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health 19 1 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects 21 Mary K. Anglin 2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology 44 Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger 3 Toward "One Health" Promotion 68 Melanie Rock and Chris Degeling Part II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health 83 4 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity 85 Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health 101 Melissa Checker 6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body 121 Joseph S. Alter 7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots 142 Helen Kopnina 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic 157 Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann Lara 9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States 173 Abigail Dumes 10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities 193 Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge Part III The Political Ecology of Health 217 11 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water 219 Linda M. Whiteford, Maryann Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, and Gina Larsen 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska 236 Laura Eichelberger 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North 257 Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen 14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk 281 Peter C. Little 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change 302 Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson 16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat 325 Lisa L. Gezon 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster 348 Stephanie C. Kane Part IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health 373 18 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance 375 Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos 19 China's Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution 396 Anna Lora?]Wainwright and Ajiang Chen 20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking 417 Elizabeth Cartwright Part V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World 435 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health 437 Merrill Singer 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change 458 Hans A. Baer 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick?]borne Disease Interactions 483 Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer Index 000
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health
Introducing the Anthropology of Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 1 Eco-social and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects
Mary Anglin
Chapter 2 Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet
Melissa K. Melby
Chapter 3 Towards more-than-human health promotion: Enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology
Melanie Rock
Part II: Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health
Chapter 4 Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions: lessons from obesity
Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff
Chapter 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health
Melissa Checker
Chapter 6 Alternative Medicine and Political Ecologies of the Body
Joseph S. Alter
Chapter 7 Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in The Netherlands
Helen Kopnina
Chapter 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic
Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann
Chapter 9 Aesthetics of Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States
Abigail Dumes
Chapter 10 Ecobiopolitics in the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities
Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge
Part III: The Political Ecology of Health
Chapter 11 Water, Environment, and Health: Now You See it, Now You Don't
Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen
Chapter 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska
Laura Eichelberger
Chapter 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen
Chapter 14 The Political Ecology of Vapor Intrusion Risk: Local-Global Dynamics of an Emerging Environmental Health Problem
Peter C. Little
Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: From Distal Drivers to Local Re-engagement
Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson
Chapter 16 Environment, Food, and Drugs: The Intricate Effects of Khat
Lisa Gezon
Chapter 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Socio-topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster
Stephanie C. Kane
Part IV: Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health
Chapter 18 Modifying our microbial environment: from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics
Kristin Harper and George Armelagos
Chapter 19 China's cancer villages: contested evidence and the politics of pollution
Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
Chapter 20 Mining and its health consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
Elizabeth Cartwright
Part V: Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World
Chapter 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change
Hans A Baer
Chapter 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions
Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer
Part I: Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health
Introducing the Anthropology of Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 1 Eco-social and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects
Mary Anglin
Chapter 2 Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet
Melissa K. Melby
Chapter 3 Towards more-than-human health promotion: Enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology
Melanie Rock
Part II: Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health
Chapter 4 Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions: lessons from obesity
Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff
Chapter 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health
Melissa Checker
Chapter 6 Alternative Medicine and Political Ecologies of the Body
Joseph S. Alter
Chapter 7 Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in The Netherlands
Helen Kopnina
Chapter 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic
Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann
Chapter 9 Aesthetics of Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States
Abigail Dumes
Chapter 10 Ecobiopolitics in the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities
Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge
Part III: The Political Ecology of Health
Chapter 11 Water, Environment, and Health: Now You See it, Now You Don't
Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen
Chapter 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska
Laura Eichelberger
Chapter 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen
Chapter 14 The Political Ecology of Vapor Intrusion Risk: Local-Global Dynamics of an Emerging Environmental Health Problem
Peter C. Little
Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: From Distal Drivers to Local Re-engagement
Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson
Chapter 16 Environment, Food, and Drugs: The Intricate Effects of Khat
Lisa Gezon
Chapter 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Socio-topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster
Stephanie C. Kane
Part IV: Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health
Chapter 18 Modifying our microbial environment: from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics
Kristin Harper and George Armelagos
Chapter 19 China's cancer villages: contested evidence and the politics of pollution
Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
Chapter 20 Mining and its health consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
Elizabeth Cartwright
Part V: Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World
Chapter 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change
Hans A Baer
Chapter 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions
Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer
Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Merrill Singer Part I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health 19 1 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects 21 Mary K. Anglin 2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology 44 Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger 3 Toward "One Health" Promotion 68 Melanie Rock and Chris Degeling Part II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health 83 4 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity 85 Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health 101 Melissa Checker 6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body 121 Joseph S. Alter 7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots 142 Helen Kopnina 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic 157 Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann Lara 9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States 173 Abigail Dumes 10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities 193 Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge Part III The Political Ecology of Health 217 11 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water 219 Linda M. Whiteford, Maryann Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, and Gina Larsen 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska 236 Laura Eichelberger 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North 257 Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen 14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk 281 Peter C. Little 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change 302 Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson 16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat 325 Lisa L. Gezon 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster 348 Stephanie C. Kane Part IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health 373 18 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance 375 Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos 19 China's Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution 396 Anna Lora?]Wainwright and Ajiang Chen 20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking 417 Elizabeth Cartwright Part V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World 435 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health 437 Merrill Singer 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change 458 Hans A. Baer 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick?]borne Disease Interactions 483 Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer Index 000
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health
Introducing the Anthropology of Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 1 Eco-social and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects
Mary Anglin
Chapter 2 Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet
Melissa K. Melby
Chapter 3 Towards more-than-human health promotion: Enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology
Melanie Rock
Part II: Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health
Chapter 4 Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions: lessons from obesity
Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff
Chapter 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health
Melissa Checker
Chapter 6 Alternative Medicine and Political Ecologies of the Body
Joseph S. Alter
Chapter 7 Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in The Netherlands
Helen Kopnina
Chapter 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic
Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann
Chapter 9 Aesthetics of Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States
Abigail Dumes
Chapter 10 Ecobiopolitics in the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities
Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge
Part III: The Political Ecology of Health
Chapter 11 Water, Environment, and Health: Now You See it, Now You Don't
Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen
Chapter 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska
Laura Eichelberger
Chapter 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen
Chapter 14 The Political Ecology of Vapor Intrusion Risk: Local-Global Dynamics of an Emerging Environmental Health Problem
Peter C. Little
Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: From Distal Drivers to Local Re-engagement
Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson
Chapter 16 Environment, Food, and Drugs: The Intricate Effects of Khat
Lisa Gezon
Chapter 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Socio-topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster
Stephanie C. Kane
Part IV: Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health
Chapter 18 Modifying our microbial environment: from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics
Kristin Harper and George Armelagos
Chapter 19 China's cancer villages: contested evidence and the politics of pollution
Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
Chapter 20 Mining and its health consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
Elizabeth Cartwright
Part V: Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World
Chapter 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change
Hans A Baer
Chapter 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions
Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer
Part I: Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health
Introducing the Anthropology of Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 1 Eco-social and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects
Mary Anglin
Chapter 2 Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet
Melissa K. Melby
Chapter 3 Towards more-than-human health promotion: Enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology
Melanie Rock
Part II: Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health
Chapter 4 Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions: lessons from obesity
Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff
Chapter 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health
Melissa Checker
Chapter 6 Alternative Medicine and Political Ecologies of the Body
Joseph S. Alter
Chapter 7 Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in The Netherlands
Helen Kopnina
Chapter 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic
Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann
Chapter 9 Aesthetics of Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States
Abigail Dumes
Chapter 10 Ecobiopolitics in the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities
Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge
Part III: The Political Ecology of Health
Chapter 11 Water, Environment, and Health: Now You See it, Now You Don't
Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen
Chapter 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska
Laura Eichelberger
Chapter 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen
Chapter 14 The Political Ecology of Vapor Intrusion Risk: Local-Global Dynamics of an Emerging Environmental Health Problem
Peter C. Little
Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: From Distal Drivers to Local Re-engagement
Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson
Chapter 16 Environment, Food, and Drugs: The Intricate Effects of Khat
Lisa Gezon
Chapter 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Socio-topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster
Stephanie C. Kane
Part IV: Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health
Chapter 18 Modifying our microbial environment: from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics
Kristin Harper and George Armelagos
Chapter 19 China's cancer villages: contested evidence and the politics of pollution
Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
Chapter 20 Mining and its health consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
Elizabeth Cartwright
Part V: Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World
Chapter 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health
Merrill Singer
Chapter 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change
Hans A Baer
Chapter 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions
Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer