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A companion to the anthropology of environmental health
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Merrill Singer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (539 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781118786925, 1118786947, 9781118786994, 9781118787137, 9781118786949, 1118786998, 1786848791, 1118787137, 1118786920, 9781786848796, 1119096650, 9781119096658
- OCLC
- ocn933219164
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Eco-social and environmental justice perspectives on breast cancer : responding to capitalism's ill effects / Mary Anglin -- Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet / Melissa K. Melby -- Towards more-than-human health promotion : enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology / Melanie Rock -- Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions : lessons from obesity / Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff -- Environmental racism and community health / Melissa Checker -- Alternative medicine and political ecologies of the body / Joseph S. Alter -- Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in the Netherlands / Helen Kopnina -- Washing away ebola : environmental stress, rumor, and ethnomedical response in a deadly epidemic / Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann -- Aesthetics of nature, environmental risk, and the practice of Lyme Disease prevention in the United States / Abigail Dumes -- Ecobiopolitics in the making of Native American reservation health inequities / Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge -- Water, environment, and health : now you see it, now you don't / Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen -- Remembering the foundations of health : everyday water insecurity and its hidden costs in Northwest Alaska / Laura Eichelberger -- Food security : health and environmental concerns in the north / Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen -- The political ecology of vapor intrusion risk : local-global dynamics of an emerging environmental health problem / Peter C. Little -- The political ecology of cause and blame : from distal drivers to local re-engagement / Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H Stephenson -- Environment, food, and drugs : the intricate effects of khat / Lisa Gezon -- Reestablishing the fundamental bases for environmental health : infrastructure and the socio-topographies of surviving seismic disaster / Stephanie C. Kane -- Modifying our microbial environment : from the advent of agriculture to the age of antibiotics / Kristin Harper and George Armelagos -- China's cancer villages : contested evidence and the politics of pollution / Anna Lora-Wainwright and Ajiang Chen -- Mining and its health consequences : from matewan to fracking / Elizabeth Cartwright -- Pluralea interactions and the remaking of the environment in environmental health / Merrill Singer -- Private cars as environmental health hazards : the critical need for public transit in the era of climate change / Hans A Baer -- Health and the Anthropocene : mounting concern about tick-borne disease interactions / Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer