A companion to the anthropology of environmental health

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    • Singer, Merrill

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A companion to the anthropology of environmental health

edited by Merrill Singer

（Blackwell companions to anthropology, 30）

Wiley Blackwell, 2016

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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

目次

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 Jose 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

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