Globalization, Health, and the Environment

An Integrated Perspective
Herausgeber: Guest, Greg

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. Through case studies of cultures around the world, they examine the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy. This book will be valuable to professionals in international health, medical anthropology, geography and sociology, environmental studies, and globalization studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105805
• ISBN-10: 0759105804
• Artikelnr.: 22475425

Autorenporträt

Greg Guest Greg Guest is a Senior Research Associate at Family Health International, and received his Ph.D. in ecological anthropology from the University of Georgia. He has carried out research in Mexico and Ecuador, and currently manages several multi-site projects in Africa. His most recent work deals with HIV/AIDS prevention, and behavioral and ethical aspects of clinical trials.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Foreword Part 2 PART I: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 3 CHAPTER 1:
Globalization, Health and the Environment: An Introduction Chapter 4
CHAPTER 2: Disease Globalization in the Third Epidemiological Transition
Chapter 5 CHAPTER 3: Poverty and Violence, Hunger and Health: A Political
Ecology of Armed Conflict Part 6 PART II: CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS Chapter 7
CHAPTER 4: Globalization, Migration, and Indigenous Commodification of
Medicinal Plants in Chiapas, Mexico Chapter 8 CHAPTER 5: Health Ecology in
Nunavut: Inuit Elders' Concepts of Nutrition, Health, and Political Change
Chapter 9 CHAPTER 6: Globalization, Dietary Change, and "Second-Hair"
Illness in Two Mesoamerican Cultures Part 10 PART III: POPULATION DYNAMICS
Chapter 11 CHAPTER 7: Canadian Cases of the Public Health Implications of
Global Environmental and Economic Change Chapter 12 CHAPTER 8:
Urbanization, Land Use, and Health in Baguio City, Philippines Chapter 13
CHAPTER 9: Globalization, Demography, and Nutrition: A Bekaa Bedouin Case
Study Part 14 PART IV: GOVERNANCE AND POLICY Chapter 15 CHAPTER 10: The
Political Ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic Chapter 16
CHAPTER 11: International Architecture for Sustainable Development and
Global Health Part 17 Index Part 18 About the Authors