Introduction : "no one dies of AIDS" -- Social ecology of health -- HIV lifeways -- Historical spaces and contemporary epidemics -- Landscapes of HIV -- Health ecologies within dynamic systems -- States of health
Summary
"Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. States of Disease advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the possibilities for health justice. The book examines how managed HIV in South Africa is being transformed with expanded access to antiretroviral therapy, and how environmental health in northern Botswana is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability. These cases demonstrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed"--Provided by publisher
Analysis
access to health care
africa
aids crisis
aids
antiretroviral therapy
apartheid
bantustans
biomedical
boteti region
boteti river
botswana
cholera
climate change
clinic
diabetes
disease
diseases
earth sciences
environment
environmental health
epidemic
flooding
global warming
health care
health justice
health
hiv
indigenous people
medicine
modern health care
native americans
natural disaster
nonfiction
pandemic
plague
public health
reservations
science
social ecology
sociology
south africa
space
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
