A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health -- Chapter 1 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects -- Beyond Pink Ribbon Marketing: Rethinking the Models of Breast Cancer -- "Hot Spots": Place, Environment, and Breast Cancer -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology -- Introduction -- Ecological Interfaces: Soil and Human Microbiome -- Balance and Biodiversity: Use of Synthetic Pesticides -- Agricultural Practices in Political Economic Perspective: Food Security -- Sustainable Solutions -- Conclusions and Opportunities for Anthropology -- References -- Chapter 3 Toward "One Health" Promotion -- Introduction -- Welfare, Well-being, and One Health -- One Health Promotion and the Social Lives of Dogs -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- PART II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health -- Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity -- Introduction -- Frameworks for Conceptualizing Obesity -- Disentangling the Environmental, Biological, and Social Factors in Each Framework -- What Is Missing from These Ecobiosocial Frameworks? -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health -- Environmental Siting and Health Disparities in the United States -- Assessing Environmental Health Risks -- The Aftermath of Uncertainty -- BOA Constrictions -- Storage Wars -- "Sore Eye" -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body -- Introduction -- A Political Ecology of the Body -- The Nature of Culture: Ecology, Modernity, and the Body.

Nature Cure in India -- Conclusion: Biosocial Ecology -- References -- Chapter 7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots -- Introduction -- Asthma and Air Pollution -- Environmental Health and Social Justice -- Patient Organizations and Asthma -- Car Culture and Environmental Health -- What Drives This Car Dependency? -- Air Pollution and Transportation in the Netherlands -- Asthma in the Netherlands -- Health and Antitoxin Awareness Movement -- Connecting the Dots -- References -- Chapter 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic -- Introduction -- Ebola and Rumor in Cameroon -- Rumor in a Time of Social Media and Mobile Communication -- Ethnomedical Responses to Stress and Danger -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusion and Recommendation -- References -- Chapter 9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States -- An American Aesthetic of Nature -- Environmental Risk Outside In -- The Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities -- Introduction -- Historical Background: Health and the Reservation Environment -- Capitalism and Toxicity -- Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance -- Conclusion: Anthropology and the Ecobiopolitics of Indian Reservations -- References -- PART III The Political Ecology of Health -- Chapter 11 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water -- Introduction -- Theorizing a Political Ecology of Water and Human Health -- Case Study: Political Ecology and Piped Water in Alto Beni, Bolivia - Water Infrastructure and Management -- Case Study: The Political Ecology of Water - The Case of Cholera.

Case Study: The Political Ecology of Water Scarcity and Emotional Distress - "It hurts my heart because this is where I was born and raised" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska -- Introduction -- Water Insecurity in Remote Alaska Native Communities -- Everyday Water Insecurity and Hidden Costs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North -- Introduction -- Local Tradition: Food Preferences and Fear -- Social Action: Dietary Choice and Risk Handling -- Hidden Knowledge: The Microbiology of Health -- Concluding Remarks: Food Safety in Changing Environments -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk -- Introduction -- An Emerging Environmental Health Risk -- Uncertainty and Complexity -- Ethnographic Case Study: The IBM-Endicott VI Site -- Future Global Political Ecologies of VI Risk -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change -- Introduction -- Environmental Mismanagement Tropes -- Climate Change and Food Insecurity in Upland Nepal -- Housing, Mold Exposure, and Industrial Development in a Canadian First Nations community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat -- Consumption: Political Ecology of Drugs and Health -- Production and Trade -- Health Effects of Increased Purchasing Power for Farmers and Traders -- Production: Use or Misuse of Resources? -- Moving Forward with Production: Political Ecology of Silence -- Conclusion.

Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster -- Introduction: Infrastructure, Social Topography, and Seismic Culture -- Studying Seismic Disaster -- How Social Topography and Seismic Culture Shape Emergency Response Narratives -- In the Seismic Moment: "It all depends on where you are." -- Conclusion -- Postscript: The Incendio of 2014 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- PART IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health -- Chaptert 18 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance -- Introduction -- The Epidemiologic Transition Theory -- The First Epidemiologic Transition: Agriculture and the Microbiome -- The Second Epidemiologic Transition: A Short-lived Reprieve from Infections -- The Third Epidemiologic Transition: Chronic Diseases Meet Antibiotic‐resistant Infections -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 19 China's Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution -- Introduction -- Developing an Understanding of Cancer Villages -- The Appearance of "Cancer Villages" as a Politico-semiotic Paradigm -- Popular Epidemiology with Chinese Characteristics - The Struggle over Evidence -- Shangba: Media Storms, Choosing Targets, and the Importance of Cohesive Communities -- Dongjing: From Violent Protests to Petitioning and Lawsuits -- Huangmengying and the Huai River Basin: Strong Civil Society and High‐level Attention -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking -- Thinking Into the Future: Eco-Risks of Extractive Mining Industries -- A Bit of Mining History: Nothing New Under the Sun … -- "The Importance of Time".

Health Consequences of Mining: A Brief Overview -- Eco-risks of Mining: The Medical Anthropology of an Occupation -- Notes -- References -- PART V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World -- Chapter 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health -- Introduction: Rethinking Environment Health -- Defining Pluralea -- Case Study 1: Health and the Air We Breathe -- Case Study 2: Superstorms: The Example of Hurricane Sandy -- Case Study 3: Coral Life and Human Well-being at Risk -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change -- Introduction -- The Private Car as a Manifestation of Global Culture of Automobility -- Environmental Health Hazards of Private Cars -- Challenges and Alternatives to the Private Car -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions -- Linking Ticks, Human Health, and Anthropogenic Change -- The Application of the Syndemics Model to TBDs -- Ticks in Human Health -- Syndemic Understanding of Increasing TBD Burden -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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