States of Disease (eBook)

Political Environments and Human Health

Brian King (Autor)

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2017
256 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96211-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.   

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Access to health care • Africa • AIDS • Aids Crisis • antiretroviral therapy • Apartheid • Bantustans • biomedical • boteti region • boteti river • Botswana • Cholera • climate change • Clinic • Diabetes • Disease • Diseases • earth sciences • Environment • Environmental Health • Epidemic • Flooding • global warming • Health • Health Care • health justice • HIV • indigenous people • Medicine • modern health care • Native Americans • natural disaster • Nonfiction • Pandemic • Plague • Public Health • reservations • Science • Social ecology • Sociology • South Africa • space
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96211-7 / 0520962117
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96211-8 / 9780520962118