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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780759119437 0759119430 1282479636 9781282479630 9786612479632 6612479639 |