Preventing War and Promoting Peace (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for Health Professionals
Redaktion: Wiist, William H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media. Comprising contributions by academics and practitioners from the fields of public health, medicine, nursing, law, sociology, psychology, political science, and peace and conflict studies, as well as representatives from organizations active in war prevention, the book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. Preventing War and Promoting Peace provides hard-hitting facts about the devastating health effects of war and a broad perspective on war and health, presenting a new paradigm for the proactive engagement of health professions in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108506601
• Artikelnr.: 50572751

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Foreword Barry S. Levy and
Victor W. Sidel; Preface Shelley K. White; Acknowledgements; Introduction:
intersections of militarism, imperialism and corporate power as context for
the prevention of war and promotion of peace William H. Wiist; Part I. The
Health Effects of War and Weapons of War: 1. The effects of war on
combatants, veterans and their families Evan Kanter; 2. Health effects of
war on civilians Kaveh Khoshnood, Bandy X. Lee, and Chanel Marin; 3. The
consequences of war on the natural environment Michael J. Lawrence, Aaron
J. Zolderdo and Steven J. Cooke; 4. Weapons of war and mass destruction
Curtis Holland, Marjorie Cohn, Ira Helfand and Jean Grassman; Part II.
Social Determinants of War: 5. The normalization of militarism and
propensity for war John Lindsay-Poland; 6. Structural violence and war:
global inequalities, resources and climate change Patrick T. Hiller; 7.
Under what conditions does ethnic conflict result in armed violence? Clark
McCauley and Joseph G. Bock; 8. The war profiteers: defense contractors
driving the permanent war economy Miriam Pemberton; 9. News as
entertainment: the ultimate war propaganda machine, or opportunity to
promote peace? Annabel McGoldrick; 10. The quiet military buyout of
academia Kathy Barker; Part III. Preventing War and Promoting Peace: 11.
Use of complex systems modelling to strengthen public health's role in
preventing war William H. Wiist; 12. The ethics of war and peace in the
contemporary era Andrew Flescher; 13. The role of international law in
preventing war and promoting peace Stuart Casey-Maslen; 14. Lessons from a
historical view of health organizations' activism for the prevention of war
Casey Hurrell; 15. A gluttonous military budget leaves our social welfare
in poor health Jonathan White; 16. Pacifism and conscientious objection:
war resistance in the United States Geraldine Gorman; 17. Countering
military recruitment in high schools Amy Hagopian and Kathy Barker; 18.
Civil disobedience and direct action in the prevention of war Kurt Schock;
19. Advocacy skills for the primary prevention of war Regina A. Galer-Unti;
Part IV. Teaching and Research in Public Health toward the Prevention of
War: 20. Teaching and learning methods for engaging health professionals in
the prevention of war Shelley K. White; 21. Conducting health research
toward preventing war and promoting peace William H. Wiist; Appendices: 1.
Public health competencies for the prevention of war; 2. War, militarism
and health: toward primary prevention: a syllabus outline Shelley K. White;
3. Additional resources; Index.