States of disease : political environments and human health / Brian King.
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Description: 227 pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520278219 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- HM861 .K56 2017
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| HM851 .V345 2018 Antisocial media : | HM851 .W42957 2017 Data for the people : | HM851 .W4558 2019 Who wins in a digital world? : | HM861 .K56 2017 States of disease : | HM881 .E3293 2014 Social movements and protest / | HM891 .E27 2003 The progress paradox : | HM891 .P56 2018 Enlightenment now : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "no one dies of AIDS" -- Social ecology of health -- HIV lifeways -- Historical spaces and contemporary epidemics -- Landscapes of HIV -- Health ecologies within dynamic systems -- States of health.
"Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. States of Disease advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the possibilities for health justice. The book examines how managed HIV in South Africa is being transformed with expanded access to antiretroviral therapy, and how environmental health in northern Botswana is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability. These cases demonstrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed"--Provided by publisher.