A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health
• Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism's Ill Effects
• Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology
• Toward “One Health” Promotion
• Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health
• Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity
• Environmental Racism and Community Health
• Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body
• Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots
• Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic
• Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States
• Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities
• The Political Ecology of Health
• Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water
• Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska
• Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North
• New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk
• The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change
• Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat
• Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster
• Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health
• Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance
• China's Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution
• Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking
• Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World
• Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health
• Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change
• Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick-borne Disease Interactions