A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health 1st Edition by Merrill Singer ISBN 1118786998 9781118786994

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ISBN 10: 1118786998 
ISBN 13: 9781118786994
Author: Merrill Singer

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 

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health

1. Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism’s Ill Effects – Mary K. Anglin
2. Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology – Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger
3. Toward “One Health” Promotion – Melanie Rock and Chris Degeling

Part II: Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health

4. Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity – Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff
5. Environmental Racism and Community Health – Melissa Checker
6. Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body – Joseph S. Alter
7. Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots – Helen Kopnina
8. Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic – Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann Lara
9. Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States – Abigail Dumes
10. Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities – Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge

Part III: The Political Ecology of Health

11. Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water – 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 – Laura Eichelberger
13. Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North – Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen
14. New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk – Peter C. Little
15. The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change – Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson
16. Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat – Lisa L. Gezon
17. Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster – Stephanie C. Kane

Part IV: Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health

18. Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance – Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos
19. China’s Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution – Anna Lora‐Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
20. Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking – Elizabeth Cartwright

Part V: Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World

21. Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health – Merrill Singer
22. Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change – Hans A. Baer
23. Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick‐borne Disease Interactions – Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer

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