Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

Merrill Singer is Professor of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut. He has published more than 275 articles and book chapters, and authored or edited 29 books. Dr. Singer is a recipient of the Rudolph Virchow Professional Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association and the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group’s Distinguished Service Award.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Merrill SingerPart I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health 191 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism’s Ill Effects 21Mary K. Anglin2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology 44Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger3 Toward “One Health” Promotion 68Melanie Rock and Chris DegelingPart II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health 834 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity 85Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff5 Environmental Racism and Community Health 101Melissa Checker6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body 121Joseph S. Alter7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots 142Helen Kopnina8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic 157Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann Lara9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States 173Abigail Dumes10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities 193Merrill Singer and G. Derrick HodgePart III The Political Ecology of Health 21711 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water 219Linda M. Whiteford, Maryann Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, and Gina Larsen12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska 236Laura Eichelberger13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North 257Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk 281Peter C. Little15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change 302Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat 325Lisa L. Gezon17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster 348Stephanie C. KanePart IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health 37318 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance 375Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos19 China’s Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution 396Anna Lora‐Wainwright and Ajiang Chen20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking 417Elizabeth CartwrightPart V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World 43521 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health 437Merrill Singer22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change 458Hans A. Baer 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick‐borne Disease Interactions 483Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer Index 000