Ecologies and Politics of Health 1st Edition by Brian King, Kelley Crews ISBN 978-1138108622 1138108626
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ISBN 10: 1138108626
ISBN 13: 978-1138108622
Author: Brian King, Kelley A. Crews
Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and infrastructure. Yet while there is emerging interest within the natural and social sciences on the social and ecological dimensions of human disease and health, there have been few studies that address them in an integrated manner.
Ecologies and Politics of Health brings together contributions from the natural and social sciences to examine three key themes: the ecological dimensions of health and vulnerability, the socio-political dimensions of human health, and the intersections between the ecological and social dimensions of health.The thirteen case study chapters collectively present results from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States, Australia, and global cities. Section one interrogates the utility of several theoretical frameworks and conventions for understanding health within complex social and ecological systems. Section two concentrates upon empirically grounded and quantitative work that collectively redefines health in a more expansive way that extends beyond the absence of disease. Section three examines the role of the state and management interventions through historically rich approaches centering on both disease- and non-disease-related examples from Latin America, Eastern Africa, and the United States. Finally, Section four highlights how health vulnerabilities are differentially constructed with concomitant impacts for disease management and policy interventions.
This timely volume advances knowledge on health-environment interactions, disease vulnerabilities, global development, and political ecology. It offers theoretical and methodological contributions which will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in geography, public health, biology, anthropology, sociology, and ecology.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Human Health at the Nexus of Ecologies and Politics
Kelley A. Crews and Brian King
Section I: Health within Social and Ecological Systems
Chapter 2: Positioning Health in a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework
Kelley A. Crews
Chapter 3: Capitals and Context: Bridging Health and Livelihoods in Smallholder Frontiers
Leah K. VanWey, James R. Hull, and Gilvan Guedes
Chapter 4: Change in Tropical Landscapes: Implications for Health and Livelihoods
Kenneth R. Young
Section II: Empirical Approaches to Injury and Infectious Disease
Chapter 5: Buruli Ulcer Disease: The Unknown Environmental and Social Ecology of a Bacterial Pathogen
Jiaguo Qi, Lindsay P. Campbell, Jenni van Ravensway, Andrew O. Finley, Richard W. Merritt, and M. Eric Benbow
Chapter 6: The Ecology of Injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh
Elisabeth D. Root and Michael Emch
Chapter 7: Human Settlement, Environmental Change, and Frontier Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
Marcia C. Castro and Burton H. Singer
Section III: Disease Histories, the State, and [Mis]Management
Chapter 8: Vaccines, Fertility, and Power: The Political Ecology of Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Lowland Latin America
Kendra McSweeney and Zoe Pearson
Chapter 9: Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis: Eradication, Control, and Coexistence in Africa
Paul F. McCord, Joseph P. Messina, & Carolyn A. Fahey
Chapter 10: Geographies of HIV and Marginalization: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Risk among Mayan Communities in Western Belize
Cynthia Pope
Chapter 11: The Mosquito State: How Technology, Capital and State Practice Mediate the Ecologies of Public Health
Paul Robbins and Jacob C. Miller
Section IV: Health Vulnerabilities
Chapter 12: Exposure to Heat Stress in Urban Environments
Olga Wilhelmi, Alex de Sherbinin, and Mary Hayden
Chapter 13: Power, Race, and the Neglect of Science: The HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eileen Stillwaggon and Larry Sawers
Chapter 14: Disease as Shock, HIV/AIDS as Experience: Coupling Social and Ecological Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brian King
Chapter 15: Futures for Ecologies and Politics of Health
Brian King and Kelley A. Crews
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