Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these sys…
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Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these sys…
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these sys…
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these sys…
"Through a rich selection of reference entries, country profiles, and interviews, this two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to the fascinating and multifaceted fields of global and cross-cultural health studies"--
"Through a rich selection of reference entries, country profiles, and interviews, this two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to the fascinating and multifaceted fields of global and cross-cultural health studies"--
"Through a rich selection of reference entries, country profiles, and interviews, this two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to the fascinating and multifaceted fields of global and cross-cultural health studies"--
"Through a rich selection of reference entries, country profiles, and interviews, this two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to the fascinating and multifaceted fields of global and cross-cultural health studies"--
"Diabetes mellitus is a global epidemic with severe complications that can be of great cost. This book focuses on the complications of hypertension, heart attack or heart failure, stroke, blindness, nephropathy, neuropathy, amputations, and death, along with the prevalence and p…
"Diabetes mellitus is a global epidemic with severe complications that can be of great cost. This book focuses on the complications of hypertension, heart attack or heart failure, stroke, blindness, nephropathy, neuropathy, amputations, and death, along with the prevalence and p…
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
Introduction: China and the globalization of biomedicine / David Luesink -- Reflections on the modernity of sanitation policies in the late Qing Dynasty / Yu Xinzhong -- Discovering diseases : research on the globalization of medical knowledge in nineteenth-century China / Xi Ga…
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
"What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse? During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts for instance in…
"This book examines the climatological processes that affect human health. This chapter, however, focuses on the physical processes associated with climate change to provide a foundation for subsequent discussions. In particular, we clarify how greenhouse gases alter the Earth's…