War Machine and Global Health

Merrill Singer is currently senior research scientist at the Center of Health, Intervention and Prevention and professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He also is a research affiliate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University. G. Derrick Hodge is a medical anthropologist and political economist who currently teaches at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He is also an adjunct professor of medical anthropology to graduate students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global HealthPart 2 Part I. The War Machine and Global Morbidity and MortalityChapter 3 Chapter 1. The Echoes of War: Effects of Early Malnutrition on Adult HealthChapter 4 Chapter 2. War and the Public Health Disaster in IraqChapter 5 Chapter 3. Children and Revolution: The Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Child Soldiers in NepalPart 6 Part II: The Environment of War and its Impact on the Human EnvironmentChapter 7 Chapter 4. The Causes and Human Costs of Targeting IraqChapter 8 Chapter 5. The Impact Of The War Machine On Global Warming And Health: A Political Ecological PerspectiveChapter 9 Chapter 6. Dying of Sorrow: Expulsion, Empire, and the People of Diego GarciaPart 10 Part III: The War Machine and the Machinery of Human Social LifeChapter 11 Chapter 7. Hasbara, Health Care and the Israeli Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesChapter 12 Chapter 8. Waging War on the Wageless: Extrajudicial Killings, Private Armies, and the Poor of HondurasChapter 13 Chapter 9. Olive Drab and White Coats: United States Military Medical Teams Interoperating with GuatemalaChapter 14 Conclusion: The Political-Economy and Critical Geography of the War Machine

This is anthropology for the upcoming century. Deeply relevant, morally engaged, theoretically astute, ethnographically rich. The authors take us on a global journey into the intersections of war and its devastating effects on health – the health of people, of politics, and of our tomorrows.