ANTH 237: Anthropology and Environmental Health (BMC): Scholarly Sources

Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book asserts that science, activism, and policy are not separate issues and shows how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked.

Covers the major issues in the field, including air, surface water, and ground water contamination, food safety, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards, vector control, and injuries.

Francis O. Adeola focuses this book on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations.

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment... Brown argues that organized social movements are crucial in recognizing and acting to combat environmental diseases.

Rather than being organized around the traditional regulatory fields (air and water pollution, hazardous wastes, radiation, etc.), this book is structured around the things we do as individuals and societies that result in environmental health hazards. The author details the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, And The modern lifestyle, while exploring our place within the local and global community.