Ebook: A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

Eco-social and environmental justice perspectives on breast cancer : responding to capitalism's ill effects / Mary Anglin -- Human and environmental health connections through the lens of agriculture and diet / Melissa K. Melby -- Towards more-than-human health promotion : enlivening medical anthropology through environmental anthropology and anthrozoology / Melanie Rock -- Conceptualizing ecobiosocial interactions : lessons from obesity / Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, Hannah Graff -- Environmental racism and community health / Melissa Checker -- Alternative medicine and political ecologies of the body / Joseph S. Alter -- Perception of traffic pollution and causes of childhood asthma in the Netherlands / Helen Kopnina -- Washing away ebola : environmental stress, rumor, and ethnomedical response in a deadly epidemic / Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and Jose Hasemann -- Aesthetics of nature, environmental risk, and the practice of Lyme Disease prevention in the United States / Abigail Dumes -- Ecobiopolitics in the making of Native American reservation health inequities / Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge -- Water, environment, and health : now you see it, now you don't / Linda Whiteford, MaryAnn Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, Gina Larsen -- Remembering the foundations of health : everyday water insecurity and its hidden costs in Northwest Alaska / Laura Eichelberger -- Food security : health and environmental concerns in the north / Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl and Anja Olsen;A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.