Ecological health : society, ecology and health / edited by Maya K. Gislason.

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, [2013]

xxi, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

First edition.

Expanding the social : moving towards the ecological in social studies of health / Maya K. Gislason -- Towards a critical approach to ecohealth research, theory and practice / Crescentia Dakubo -- Exploring aboriginal people's connection to country to strengthen human-nature theoretical perspectives / Jonathan Yotti Kingsley, Mardie Townsend and Claire Henderson-Wilson -- Tibetan protest self-immolation in China : reflections on ecology, health and politics / Colin D. Butler -- Ecohealth through an ability studies and disability studies lens / Gregor Wolbring -- Structural vulnerability and narrative : sensitising concepts for understanding the health impacts of climate change / Rebecca Moran, Julie Hollenbeck and Cassandra Phoenix -- Health and environmental politics in the United States : a historical perspective / Jennifer Thomson -- Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS and forests in Malawi : morbidity, mortality, and changing dependence on forest resources / Joleen Timko -- Drops and hot stones : towards integrated urban planning in terms of water scarcity and health issues in Leh Town, Ladakh, India / Daphne Gondhalekar ... [et al.] -- The ecology of dying : commodity chains, governance, and the medicalization of end-of-life care / Christine Vatovec, Laura Senier and Michael Mayerfeld Bell -- Why is an integrated social-ecological systems (ISES) lens needed to explain causes and determinants of disease? A case study of dengue in Dhaka, Bangdalesh / Parnali Dhar Chowdhury and C. Emdad Haque -- Perpetuating a reductionist medical worldview : the absence of environmental medicine in the American ADHD clinical practice guidelines / Manuel Vallée -- A sustainable development agenda for the UK national health service (NHS) : an organizational learning model for defining and supporting goals / Claire Marsh -- Environmental health risk governance in practice : lessons learned from a Flemish case study approach / Kristen Stassen and Pieter Leroy -- Oceans and human health in the Caribbean region / Alana Malinde, S. N. Lancaster and Lyndon F. Robertson.

Includes bibliographical references.