Brian King 
States of Disease [EPUB ebook] 
Political Environments and Human Health

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In
States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability in northern Botswana. These case studies illustrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed.   

Table of Content

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations


I ntroduction: “No One Dies of AIDS”

1. Social Ecology of Health

2. HIV Lifeways

3. Historical Spaces and Contemporary Epidemics

4. Landscapes of HIV

5. Health Ecologies within Dynamic Systems

6. States of Health


Notes

References

Index

About the author

Brian King is Associate Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University.