Singer - A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

1. Chapter 02
2. Chapter 04
3. Chapter 22
4. Chapter 23

1. Chapter 02
2. Chapter 03
3. Chapter 05
4. Chapter 12
5. Chapter 15
6. Chapter 17
7. Chapter 23

The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry for the field. Taken together, the series represents both a contemporary survey of anthropology and a cutting edge guide to the emerging research and intellectual trends in the field as a whole.

1. A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, edited by Alessandro Duranti

2. A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent

3. A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians, edited by Thomas Biolsi

4. A Companion to Psychological Anthropology, edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton

5. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, edited by Jennifer Robertson

6. A Companion to Latin American Anthropology, edited by Deborah Poole

7. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, edited by Clark Larsen

8. A Companion to the Anthropology of India, edited by Isabelle Clark-Decs

9. A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson

10. A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, edited by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Michael D. Fischer

11. A Companion to Cultural Resource Management, edited by Thomas King

12. A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, edited by Bradley A. Levinson and Mica Pollock

13. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment, edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees

14. A Companion to Paleopathology, edited by Anne L. Grauer

15. A Companion to Folklore, edited by Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem

16. A Companion to Forensic Anthropology, edited by Dennis Dirkmaat

17. A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Mirad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman

18. A Companion to Border Studies, edited by Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan

19. A Companion to Rock Art, edited by Jo McDonald and Peter Veth

20. A Companion to Moral Anthropology, edited by Didier Fassin

21. A Companion to Gender Prehistory, edited by Diane Bolger

22. A Companion to Organizational Anthropology, edited by D. Douglas Caulkins and Ann T. Jordan

23. A Companion to Paleoanthropology, edited by David R. Begun

24. A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, edited by Anne P. Underhill

25. A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek

26. A Companion to Urban Anthropology, edited by Donald M. Nonini

27. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki

28. A Companion to Heritage Studies, edited by William Logan, Mirad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel

29. A Companion to Dental Anthropology, edited by Joel D. Irish and G. Richard Scott

30. A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health, edited by Merrill Singer

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Merrill Singer

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Names: Singer, Merrill, editor of compilation.
Title: A companion to the anthropology of environmental health / edited by Merrill Singer.
Description: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044829 (print) | LCCN 2015050092 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118786994 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118786925 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118787137 (Adobe PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Environmental health. | Public healthAnthropological aspects.
Classification: LCC RA565.A3 C66 2016 (print) | LCC RA565.A3 (ebook) | DDC 362.1dc23
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Joseph S. Alter teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and has published a number of books, including The Wrestlers Body, Knowing Dil Das, Gandhis Body, Asian Medicine and Globalization, Yoga in Modern India, and Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India. His research is based in South Asia and is currently focused on the cultural history of nature cure as a globalized system of medicine, biosemiotics and social theory, and the natural history of animals in the human imagination.

Mary K. Anglin is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, where she recently completed a term as department chair. Through long-term ethnographic research, based in urban northern California, she has examined breast cancer as a public health problem and a social crisis, with attention to the role of social activism in challenging biomedical views of risk as well as approaches to treatment. Her recent work explores differences of ethnicity, race, nationality, and social class among women diagnosed with breast cancer, and the implications of such differences for quality of life and survival. Future plans include a return to ethnographic work on issues of environmental contamination in Appalachia, with attention to their impact on communities and human health. The theme that unites these various projects is an abiding interest in health inequities and social justice and the potential uses of a critically applied anthropology.