Globalization, health, and the environment : an integrated perspective /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | xi, 274 p : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Globalization and the environment ; 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6226470 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Part I. Global Transformations
- 1. Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Introduction
- 2. Disease Globalization in the Third Epidemiological Transition
- 3. Poverty and Violence, Hunger and Health: A Political Ecology of Armed Conflict
- Part II. Cultural Adaptations
- 4. Globalization, Migration, and Indigenous Commodification of Medicinal Plants in Chiapas, Mexico
- 5. Health Ecology in Nunavut: Inuit Elders' Concepts of Nutrition, Health, and Political Change
- 6. Globalization, Dietary Change, and "Second Hair" Illness in Two Mesoamerican Cultures
- Part III. Population Dynamics
- 7. Canadian Cases of the Public Health Implications of Global Environmental and Economic Change
- 8. Urbanization, Land Use, and Health in Baguio City, Philippines
- 9. Globalization, Demography, and Nutrition: A Bekaa Bedouin Case Study
- Part IV. Governance and Policy
- 10. The Political Ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
- 11. International Architecture for Sustainable Development and Global Health
- Index
- About the Authors
