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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
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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Autorenporträt
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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