Ecologies and politics of health /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: King, Brian (Brian Hastings), 1973-, Crews, Kelley A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge studies in human geography ; 41.
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Table of Contents:
  • Human health at the nexus of ecologies and politics / Kelley A. Crews, Brian King
  • Positioning health in a socio-ecological systems framework / Kelley A. Crews
  • Capitals and context: bridging health and livelihoods in smallholder frontiers / Leah K. VanWey, James R. Hull, Gilvan Guedes
  • Change in tropical landscapes: implications for health and livelihoods / Kenneth R. Young
  • Buruli ulcer disease: the unknown environmental and social ecology of a bacterial pathogen / Jiaguo Qi ... [et al.]
  • The ecology of injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh / Elisabeth D. Root, Michael Emch
  • Human settlement, environmental change, and frontier malaria in the Brazilian Amazon / Marcia C. Castro, Burton H. Singer
  • Vaccines, fertility, and power: the political ecology of indigenous health and well-being in lowland Latin America / Kendra McSweeney, Zoe Pearson
  • Tsetse and trypanosomiasis: eradication, control, and coexistence in Africa / Paul F. McCord, Joseph P. Messina, Carolyn A. Fahey
  • Geographies of HIV and marginalization: a case study of HIV/AIDS risk among Mayan communities in western Belize / Cynthia Pope
  • The mosquito state: how technology, capital and state practice mediate the ecologies of public health / Paul Robbins, Jacob C. Miller
  • Exposure to heat stress in urban environments / Olga Wilhelmi, Alex de Sherbinin, Mary Hayden
  • Power, race, and the neglect of science: the HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa / Eileen Stillwaggon, Larry Sawers
  • Disease as shock, HIV/AIDS as experience: coupling social and ecological responses in sub-Saharan Africa / Brian King
  • Challenges and opportunities for future ecologies and politics of health / Brian King, Kelley A. Crews.