States of Disease - Political Environments and Human Health

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-27820-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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