States of Disease

Political Environments and Human Health

AvBrian King

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability in northern Botswana. These case studies illustrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520278219

Utforska kategorier

Sjukdomar och rubbningar inom Medicin
Samhällsmedicin och preventiv medicin inom Medicin
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Brian King is Associate Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University.

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“King presents fresh new ways of thinking about the ways in which political and economic environments shape human health, and his in-depth examples, born from years in the field and a deep understanding of the local, social, and political environments he studies, sheds light on how these broad processes shape both health vulnerability as well as public health responses to these health threats.”

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations I ntroduction: "No One Dies of AIDS" 1. Social Ecology of Health 2. HIV Lifeways 3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics 4. Landscapes of HIV 5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems 6. States of Health Notes References Index