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9780759105805

Globalization, Health, and the Environment An Integrated Perspective

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    9780759105805

  • ISBN10:

    0759105804

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-09-29
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Anthony McMichael
Part I Global Transformations
Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Introduction
3(24)
Greg Guest
Eric C. Jones
Disease Globalization in the Third Epidemiological Transition
27(28)
George J. Armelagos
Kristin N. Harper
Poverty and Violence, Hunger and Health: A Political Ecology of Armed Conflict
55(28)
Thomas L. Leatherman
Part II Cultural Adaptations
Globalization, Migration, and Indigenous Commodification of Medicinal Plants in Chiapas, Mexico
83(24)
David G. Casagrande
Health Ecology in Nunavut: Inuit Elders' Concepts of Nutrition, Health, and Political Change
107(26)
Ann McElroy
Globalization, Dietary Change, and ``Second Hair'' Illness in Two Mesoamerican Cultures
133(26)
George E. Luber
Part III Population Dynamics
Canadian Cases of the Public Health Implications of Global Environmental and Economic Change
159(22)
John Eyles
Nicole Consitt
Urbanization, Land Use, and Health in Baguio City, Philippines
181(20)
Mary Anne Alabanza Akers
Timothy Akers
Globalization, Demography, and Nutrition: A Bekaa Bedouin Case Study
201(18)
Suzanne E. Joseph
Part IV Governance and Policy
The Political Ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
219(20)
Linda M. Whiteford
Beverly Hill
International Architecture for Sustainable Development and Global Health
239(20)
Paul R. Epstein
Greg Guest
Index 259(10)
About the Authors 269

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