1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386336403316

Titolo

The Present French king drawn to the life, or, A relation of the many strategems, Jesuitical devices, and diabolical policies that he at this time makes use of to aggrandize himself, the imitation whereof prov'd so fatal to the late K. James [[electronic resource] ] : whereby all that are in arms in Ireland may take caution that they are not likewise deluded

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed and are to be sold by R. Baldwin ..., 1690

Descrizione fisica

[2], 75, [1] p

Soggetti

Great Britain Foreign relations France

France Foreign relations England

Europe Politics and government 1648-1715

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title: The present politicks of France and the maxims of Lewis XIV laid open to Europe.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113