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Health in the Anthropocene : living well on a finite planet / edited by Katharine Zywert and Stephen Quilley. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2020. – (61.26/H434) |
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
3
Part I - Population Health in the
Anthropocene: Addressing Wicked Problems in the Transition to an Alternative Social-Ecological
System Guided by Ecological Constraints
1 Individual or Community as a Frame of
Reference for Health in Modernity and in the Anthropocene 25
2 "Regional Overload" as an
Indicator of Profound Risk: A Plea for the Public Health Community to
Awaken 60
3 Medicine and Health Care in the
Anthropocene: Who Pays and Why? 86
4 Anthropocene Health Economics: Preparing
for the Journey or the Destination? 107
5 What about My Pineapples? The Wicked
Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social
Goals 140
6 Imagining Health Systems 150 Years from
Now: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health 155
7 A Changing Role for Public Health in the
Anthropocene: The Contribution of Scenario Thinking for Reimagining the
Future 170
Part II - Emerging Social Innovations for
Health and Well-Being: Prefiguring Viable Health Systems for the Anthropocene
8 The Role of Grassroots Social Movements as
Agents of Change for Societal Transformation: The Example of the Transition
Movement 196
9 "Food as Thy Medicine": How
Ecovillages Foster Population and Planetary Health through Regenerative Food
Systems 210
10 Care Farming: Making a Meaningful
Connection between Agriculture, Health Care, and Society 226
11 Grieving Nature - Grieving in Nature: The
Place of Parks and Natural Places in Palliative and Grief Care 241
12 Nature as Partner: Rethinking
Intersectoral Action for Health in the Anthropocene Era 251
13 The Soil Sponge: Collaborating with the
Work of Other Species to Improve Public Health, Climate Change, and
Resilience 266
14 Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene:
Tenets of a Meta-medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems in Precarious Times 285
Part III - Alternative Ontologies: Laying
the Groundwork for Living Well within the Earth's Biophysical Limits
15 Our Affluence Is Killing Us: What
Degrowth Offers Health and Well-Being
306
16 Nurturing Ecological Consciousness 323
17 Bodies of the Anthropocene: Health,
Ontology, Ecology 339
18 The Exploration of Socioecological
Approaches and Indicators in the Anthropocene
357
19 Coming Back to Our True Nature: What Is
the Inner Work That Supports Transition?
383
20 Death Denial in the Anthropocene 404
21 To Become Ancestors of a Living
Future 419
Conclusion - Pursuing Health in the
Anthropocene: A Synthesis of Current and Future Research Priorities 433
Contributors
447
