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The Ecology of Health
Identifying Issues and Alternatives
Edited by:
- Jennifer Chesworth - Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Clinical Medicine
Clinical Medicine
September 1996 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The contributors to this innovative and wide-ranging volume reflect on the philosophical issues surrounding health and ecology. They examine the policy issues involved in health and health ecology, and explore the paths that may eventually lead to a new ecology of health.
Introduction
PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON HEALTH AND ECOLOGY
Carl Mitcham
Biomedical Technologies and the Environment
Rejecting Nature
Ivan Illich
Brave New Biocracy
A Critique of Health Care from Womb to Tomb
Frank B Golley
Deep Ecology from the Perspective of Ecological Science
Michael W Fox
Beastly Questions
Strachan Donnelley
Transgenic Animals and 'Wild' Nature
A Landscape of Moral Ecology
David J Hufford and Mariana Chilton
Politics, Spirituality and Environmental Healing
Robbie E Davis-Floyd
Birth in the Technology
Body Image and Worldview
Janice Morse
The Caretakers of Suffering
David E Young
Aboriginal Healing and its Relevance for Non-Aboriginals
B K S Iyengar and F Dean Lerner
Yoga for Health and Freedom
PART TWO: POLICY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH ECOLOGY
William D Ruckleshaus
Risk, Science, and Democracy
Robert N Proctor
The Politics of Cancer
Judith Johnsrud
Radiation
The Ghost in the Biosphere
David Morris
A Molecular Basis for Development
An Environmental Policy for the 1990s
Janice Raymond
Productive Technologies
The Necessity for Limits
Marilyn Maridiros
Primary Health Care and the World Health Organization
Constance McCorkle
Intersectoral Health Care Delivery
Michael J Balick
Ethnobotany
Linking Health and Environmental Conservation
Robert Rodale
You Are What You Eat
PART THREE: NEW PATHS: TOWARD AN ECOLOGY OF HEALTH
Phil Nuernberger
Health and Self-Mastery
The Ecology of Personal Power
Jim Johnson
Addiction and Recovery for Individuals and Society
Philip Blackford and Stephen Couchman
Learning to See New Landscapes
The Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School
Hunter 'Patch' Adams
Humor and Healing
Or, Why We're Building a Silly Hospital
Edna McHutchion
Hospice
A Return to Compassionate Care
Hari Sharma
The Fallacy of the Active Ingredient
William Rea
Environmental Medicine and Individual Health
Wayne B Jonas
Homeopathy
Cause or Consequences in Therapy?
Sherry Wildfeuer
What Is Biodynamics?
Dorothy Blair
Eating in the Bioregion
Bill Mollison
An Introduction to Permaculture
Helen Nearing
Living the Good Life