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  • Globalization, Health, and the Environment

    An Integrated Perspective

    by Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Timothy Akers, George J. Armelagos, David G. Casagrande, Nicole Consitt, Paul R. Epstein, John Eyles, Kristin N. Harper, Beverly Hill, Eric C. Jones, Suzanne E. Joseph, Thomas L. Leatherman, George E. Luber, Ann McElroy, Anthony McMichael, Linda M. Whiteford ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global bionetwork. Their timely case studies describe the cultural adaptations of indigenous populations to their ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective

    by Ann McElroy, Patricia K Townsend ...
    Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In this premier teaching text, authors Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend integrate biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, providing a complete and authoritative ecological ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • An Ecology of Happiness

    by Eric Lambin ...
    Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ...
    The scientific evidence that a healthy planet equals happier humans: "Highly recommended."— Library JournalWe've heard plenty about the big-picture damage and danger of environmental degradation. But there hasn't been much focus on its impact on us and our well-being. You sense it while walking on a sandy beach or in a forest, or when you catch sight of wildlife, or even while gardening in your ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Issues In Public Health

    by Fiona Sim, Martin McKee ...
    This book discusses the core issues of modern public health, its themes, foundations and evolution and the impact of globalisation. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Geography of Health

    by Helen Hazen, Peter Anthamatten ...
    In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Health and Medical Geography

    by Michael Emch, PhD, Elisabeth Dowling Root, PhD, Margaret Carrel, PhD ...
    Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

    by Ron Barrett, George Armelagos (the late) ...
    This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new pathogens, the major determinants of these emerging infections are ancient and recurring. These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities. The recent ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Anthropology of Infectious Disease

    by Merrill Singer ...
    This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • More-than-One Health

    Humans, Animals, and the Environment Post-COVID

    Edited by Irus Braverman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
    This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to, and explicit about, colonial and neocolonial legacies—urging the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Ecologies and Politics of Health

    Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology

    Edited by Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin ...
    Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s, and is now one of the dominant paradigms in ... Read more

    $120.00 USD

  • Jaws

    The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

    by Sandra Kahn, Paul R. Ehrlich ...
    There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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