States of Disease : Political Environments and Human Health / / Brian King

• Autore: King Brian
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 304.209 68
• Soggetto topico: Social ecology - Health aspects - South Africa; Social ecology - Health aspects - Botswana; AIDS (Disease) - Treatment - Government policy - South Africa; AIDS (Disease) - Prevention - Government policy - South Africa; Environmental health - Botswana
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "No One Dies of AIDS" -- 1. Social Ecology of Health -- 2. HIV Lifeways -- 3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics -- 4. Landscapes of HIV -- 5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems -- 6. States of Health -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability in northern Botswana. These case studies illustrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed.
• Titolo autorizzato: States of Disease
• ISBN: 0-520-96211-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153131003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II