The war machine and global health :: a critical medical anthropological examination of the human costs of armed conflict and the international violence industry /

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly,...

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Weitere Verfasser: Singer, Merrill, Hodge, G. Derrick, 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung:In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical perspective of critical medical anthropology, and morebroadly by the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading medical anthropo.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 339 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780759119437
0759119430
1282479636
9781282479630
9786612479632
6612479639

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