Research Catalog

Title

Globalization, health, and the environment : an integrated perspective / edited by Greg Guest.

Publication

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Guest, Greg, 1963-

Description

xi, 274 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Globalization and the environment ; 5

Uniform Title

Globalization and the environment ; 5.

Subject

• Environmental Health
• Environmental health
• Global Health
• Globalization > Environmental aspects
• Globalization > Health aspects
• Internationality
• World health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Globalization, health, and the environment : an introduction / Greg Guest, Eric C. Jones -- Disease globalization in the third epidemiological transition / George J. Armelagos, Kristin N. Harper -- Poverty and violence, hunger and health : a political ecology of armed conflict / Thomas L. Leatherman -- Globalization, migration, and indigenous commodification of medicinal plants in Chiapas, Mexico / David G. Casagrande -- Health ecology in Nunavut : Inuit elders' concepts of nutrition, health, and political change / Ann McElroy -- Globalization, dietary change, and "second hair" illness in two Mesoamerican cultures / George E. Luber -- Canadian cases of the public health implications of global environmental and economic change / John Eyles, Nicole Consitt -- ǂt Urbanization, land use, and health in Baguio City, Philippines / Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Timothy Akers -- Globalization, demography, and nutrition : a Bekaa Bedouin case study / Suzanne E. Joseph -- The political ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic / Linda M. Whiteford, Beverly Hill -- International architecture for sustainable development and global health / Paul R. Epstein, Greg Guest.

ISBN

• 0759105804 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0759105812 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005007048

OCLC

58457251

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library