Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Merrill Singer
Part I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health 19
1 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast
Cancer: Responding to Capitalism’s Ill Effects 21
Mary K. Anglin
2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health:
Opportunities for Anthropology 44
Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger
3 Toward “One Health” Promotion 68
Melanie Rock and Chris Degeling
Part II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health 83
4 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from
Obesity 85
Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff
5 Environmental Racism and Community Health 101
Melissa Checker
6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the
Body 121
Joseph S. Alter
7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots 142
Helen Kopnina
8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and
Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic 157
Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann
Lara
9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the
Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States 173
Abigail Dumes
10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation
Health Inequities 193
Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge
Part III The Political Ecology of Health 217
11 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of
Water 219
Linda M. Whiteford, Maryann Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, and Gina
Larsen
12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water
Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska 236
Laura Eichelberger
13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
257
Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen
14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of
Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk 281
Peter C. Little
15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental
Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and
Climate Change 302
Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson
16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of
Khat 325
Lisa L. Gezon
17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental
Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving
Seismic Disaster 348
Stephanie C. Kane
Part IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health 373
18 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of
Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance 375
Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos
19 China’s Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics
of Pollution 396
Anna Lora‐Wainwright and Ajiang Chen
20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
417
Elizabeth Cartwright
Part V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World 435
21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in
Environmental Health 437
Merrill Singer
22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical
Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change 458
Hans A. Baer
23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about
Tick‐borne Disease Interactions 483
Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer
Index 000
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.
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