The War Machine and Global Health

Merrill Singer; G. Derrick Hodge

doi:10.5771/9780759119437

Zusammenfassung

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical perspective of critical medical anthropology, and more broadly by the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading medical anthropologists and other health social scientists carefully examines the global effects of war, the war industry, and the international weapons trade on human health and well-being. Further, this book goes beyond offering a lively and readable account of a pressing health concern by critically analyzing the political and economic forces driving the war machine to inflict ever-increasing levels of social suffering and loss of life.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7591-1190-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1943-7
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 340
Produkttyp: Sammelband

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1. CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
INTRODUCTION: The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global Health Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 28
1. CHAPTER ONE. THE ECHOES OF WAR: Effects of Early Malnutrition on Adult Health Kein Zugriff
2. CHAPTER TWO. WAR AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER IN IRAQ Kein Zugriff
3. CHAPTER THREE. CHILDREN AND REVOLUTION: Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being of Child Soldiers in Nepal Kein Zugriff
1. CHAPTER FOUR. THE CAUSES AND HUMAN COSTS OF TARGETING IRAQ Kein Zugriff
2. CHAPTER FIVE. THE IMPACT OF THE WAR MACHINE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND HEALTH: A Political-Ecological Perspective Kein Zugriff
3. CHAPTER SIX. DYING OF SORROW: Expulsion, Empire, and the People of Diego Garcia Kein Zugriff
1. CHAPTER SEVEN. HASBARA, HEALTH CARE, AND THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Kein Zugriff
2. CHAPTER EIGHT. WAGING WAR ON THE WAGELESS: Extrajudicial Killings, Private Armies, and the Poor of Honduras Kein Zugriff
3. CHAPTER NINE. OLIVE DRAB AND WHITE COATS: U.S. Military Medical Teams Interoperating with Guatemala Kein Zugriff
CONCLUSION: The Political Economy and Critical Geography of the War Machine Kein Zugriff Seiten 303 - 330
INDEX Kein Zugriff Seiten 331 - 334
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Kein Zugriff Seiten 335 - 340