The War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropological Examination of the Human Costs of Armed Conflict and the...
- ISBN-10
- 0759111901
- ISBN-13
- 9780759111905
- Category
- Violence
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Authors
- Merrill Singer, G. Derrick Hodge
Description
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 more broadly by the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading medical anthropologists and other health social scientists carefully examines the global effects of war, the war industry, and the international weapons trade on human health and well-being. Further, this book goes beyond offering a lively and readable account of a pressing health concern by critically analyzing the political and economic forces driving the war machine to inflict ever-increasing levels of social suffering and loss of life.
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