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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456740003321

Titolo

The war machine and global health [[electronic resource] ] : a critical medical anthropological examination of the human costs of armed conflict and the international violence industry / / edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : AltaMira Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-47963-6

9786612479632

0-7591-1943-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SingerMerrill

HodgeG. Derrick <1968->

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

War - Health aspects

World health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global Health; PART ONE. THE WAR MACHINE AND GLOBAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY; CHAPTER ONE. THE ECHOES OF WAR: Effects of Early Malnutrition on Adult Health; CHAPTER TWO. WAR AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER IN IRAQ; CHAPTER THREE. CHILDREN AND REVOLUTION: Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being of Child Soldiers in Nepal; PART TWO. THE ENVIRONMENT OF WAR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER FOUR. THE CAUSES AND HUMAN COSTS OF TARGETING IRAQ

CHAPTER FIVE. THE IMPACT OF THE WAR MACHINE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND HEALTH: A Political-Ecological PerspectiveCHAPTER SIX. DYING OF SORROW: Expulsion, Empire, and the People of Diego Garcia; PART THREE. THE WAR MACHINE AND THE MACHINERY OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE; CHAPTER SEVEN. HASBARA, HEALTH CARE, AND THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES; CHAPTER EIGHT. WAGING WAR ON THE WAGELESS: Extrajudicial Killings, Private Armies,



and the Poor of Honduras; CHAPTER NINE. OLIVE DRAB AND WHITE COATS: U.S. Military Medical Teams Interoperating with Guatemala

CONCLUSION: The Political Economy and Critical Geography of the War MachineINDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book of essays by medical anthropologists and other health social scientists examines the full measure of the disastrous global health effects of war in the contemporary world. It provides a political economic framework for assessing the war machine.