Globalization, Health, and the Environment

Greg Guest Greg Guest is a Senior Research Associate at Family Health International, and received his Ph.D. in ecological anthropology from the University of Georgia. He has carried out research in Mexico and Ecuador, and currently manages several multi-site projects in Africa. His most recent work deals with HIV/AIDS prevention, and behavioral and ethical aspects of clinical trials.

• Part 1 Foreword Part 2 PART I: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 3 CHAPTER 1: Globalization, Health and the Environment: An Introduction Chapter 4 CHAPTER 2: Disease Globalization in the Third Epidemiological Transition Chapter 5 CHAPTER 3: Poverty and Violence, Hunger and Health: A Political Ecology of Armed Conflict Part 6 PART II: CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS Chapter 7 CHAPTER 4: Globalization, Migration, and Indigenous Commodification of Medicinal Plants in Chiapas, Mexico Chapter 8 CHAPTER 5: Health Ecology in Nunavut: Inuit Elders' Concepts of Nutrition, Health, and Political Change Chapter 9 CHAPTER 6: Globalization, Dietary Change, and "Second-Hair" Illness in Two Mesoamerican Cultures Part 10 PART III: POPULATION DYNAMICS Chapter 11 CHAPTER 7: Canadian Cases of the Public Health Implications of Global Environmental and Economic Change Chapter 12 CHAPTER 8: Urbanization, Land Use, and Health in Baguio City, Philippines Chapter 13 CHAPTER 9: Globalization, Demography, and Nutrition: A Bekaa Bedouin Case Study Part 14 PART IV: GOVERNANCE AND POLICY Chapter 15 CHAPTER 10: The Political Ecology of Dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic Chapter 16 CHAPTER 11: International Architecture for Sustainable Development and Global Health Part 17 Index Part 18 About the Authors

This collection boasts a remarkably cohesive set of readings on the unwieldy theme of globalization and health. Collectively, contributors cross local-global, ecological, geopolitical, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries to tackle dimensions of political economy, environment, and disease while rarely losing sight of cultural context in illuminating the complex dynamics of world systems, resource degradation, and human well-being. . . .this ambitious work successfully unites basic and applied research to advance insight and advocate for action.