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The physical and social dimensions of climate change -- The rise and role of social inequality in the production of climate change -- Maintaining inequality : the ideology of denial and the creation of climate change uncertainty -- The polluting elite and the political economy of climate change denial -- Anthropological lens on climate change -- Changing world of the indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat peoples -- Water vulnerability and social equity in Ecuador -- On the bottom rung of a low lying nation : social ranking and climate change in Bangladesh -- Haiti : a legacy of colonialism, a future of climate change -- Mali: climate change, desertification, and food insecurity -- The consequential intersection of social inequality and climate change : health, coping, and community organizing

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- DEDICATION -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING EPIDEMICS IN POLITICAL ECONOMIC CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1: Forging a Political Economy of AIDS -- CHAPTER 2: Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic -- SECTION II: GENDER, ETHNICITY AND CLASS IN AIDS RISK IN THE INNER-CITY -- CHAPTER 3: Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres -- CHAPTER 4: Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women -- CHAPTER 5: Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Injectors -- SECTION III: THE STRUGGLE FOR CARE AMONG PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS -- CHAPTER 6: Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users -- CHAPTER 7: The Political Economy of Caregiving for People with HIV/AIDS -- SECTION IV: AIDS IN THE THIRD WORLD -- CHAPTER 8: The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa -- CHAPTER 9: More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political Economy of AIDS in Lesotho -- CHAPTER 10: Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Topic Index

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

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that explore - from the perspective of medical anthropology - the interface between humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.

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The objective of neoliberal globalization, as noted by various observers, is not the improvement of global health and wellbeing but the expansion of deregulated markets in international trade and investment, a characteristic affirmed and illustrated in this article through an examination of the global commoditization of turkey tails and the role of world trade institutions and policies in this process. The article, a contribution to the political ecology of health, assesses the deleterious factors that stem from trade in this fatty commodity as it flows from poultry farms in the U.S. into the indigenized diets and changing bodies of people in several developing nations in the Pacific, Ghana, and beyond.Key words: Neoliberal trade, global food commodities, food culture, political ecology of health, Pacific islands.

The objective of neoliberal globalization, as noted by various observers, is not the improvement of global health and wellbeing but the expansion of deregulated markets in international trade and investment, a characteristic affirmed and illustrated in this article through an examination of the global commoditization of turkey tails and the role of world trade institutions and policies in this process. The article, a contribution to the political ecology of health, assesses the deleterious factors that stem from trade in this fatty commodity as it flows from poultry farms in the U.S. into the indigenized diets and changing bodies of people in several developing nations in the Pacific, Ghana, and beyond.Key words: Neoliberal trade, global food commodities, food culture, political ecology of health, Pacific islands.

Increasingly, it is recognized that traditional narrow approaches to environment and health relations are insufficient to comprehend and respond effectively to the complexity of factors influencing human health. In response, a new approach, referred to as Ecohealth has emerged with the goal of assessing the multiple interactions that occur between components the ecosystem, the local and global political economy, and cultural systems, on the one hand, and the ways in which these biosocial interactions influence the nature, concentration, and entwinement of health problems in human populations, on the other. Those contributing to the development of the Ecohealth orientation also seek to identify evidence‐based strategies for improving the health and living conditions of human populations and the sustainability of the ecosystems in which they live. Within anthropology and public health, in particular, one reflection of the broader Ecohealth approach is expressed in the concept of syndemics, which was developed during the 1990s to label the various interactions among comorbid diseases and other health conditions that increase the burden of suffering in populations and the encompassing social relations and conditions that amplify the likelihood of adverse disease interactions occurring. In southern Africa, a notable synergism has developed between HIV/AIDS and food insecurity that significantly threatens the health and well‐being of diverse populations in the region. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the key epidemiological, environmental, social, and political economic features of the entwined HIV‐affected food insecurity and food insecurity‐affected HIV syndemics of southern Africa.

Human health is at growing risk due to the multiple climatic effects of global warming. More importantly, it is becoming evident that individual ecocrises are not independent phenomenon but are entwined with and contribute to the intensification of other environmental predicaments. In light of a range of imagined futures that share a narrative about global warming that posits the existence of global "winners and losers" (regions that will benefit from and those that will suffer from global warming), this paper examines two specific cases—Midwestern flooding during the summer of 2008 and the accelerating degradation of the Sacramento Delta. These examples, expressions of convergent ecocrises, here termed pluralea interactions, suggest that going beyond global warming reveals the folly of "winner and loser" thinking. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the health impacts of intersecting ecocrises for directions in medical anthropology.