Ecologies and Politics of Health

Brian King is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, USA.Kelley A. Crews is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, USA and currently is on leave as a Visiting Scientist and Program Director at the National Science Foundation, USA.

• Foreword. 1. Human Health at the Nexus of Ecologies and Politics Section 1: Health within Social and Ecological Systems 2. Positioning Health in a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework 3. Capitals and Context: Bridging Health and Livelihoods in Smallholder Frontiers 4. Change in Tropical Landscapes: Implications for Health and Livelihoods Section 2: Empirical Approaches to Injury and Infectious Disease 5. Buruli Ulcer Disease: The Unknown Environmental and Social Ecology of a Bacterial Pathogen 6. The Ecology of Injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh 7. Human Settlement, Environmental Change, and Frontier Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon Section 3: Disease Histories, the State, and [Mis]Management 8. Vaccines, Fertility, and Power: The Political Ecology of Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Lowland Latin America 9. Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis: Eradication, Control, and Coexistence in Africa 10. Geographies of HIV and Marginalization: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Risk among Mayan Communities in Western Belize 11. The Mosquito State: How Technology, Capital and State Practice Mediate the Ecologies of Public Health Section 4: Health Vulnerabilities 12. Exposure to Heat Stress in Urban Environments 13. Power, Race, and the Neglect of Science: The HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa 14. Disease as Shock, HIV/AIDS as Experience: Coupling Social and Ecological Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa 15. Futures for Ecologies and Politics of Health

"It is definitely a volume worth reading. As I read, I reflected on the voices of the medical geographers who informed me as a graduate student more than three decades ago: John Hunter, Charles Good, Robert Roundy, Melinda Meade, and later, Jon Mayer and a myriad of others. With the exception of Mayer, those authors shared a rural, largely infectious disease focus in much of their work. Although King and Crews outline some of the shortcomings of earlier medical geography, geography has a long tradition of exploring the health implications of human–environment interactions." – AAG Review of Books, East-West Center, USA