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States of Disease: Political Environments and Human Health

By Brian King

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0520962117, 9780520962118
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3309991 bytes)
Pages
254\254
Time added
2018-06-01 21:51:24

Description

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.

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