This book brings together contributions from the natural and social sciences to examine the social and environmental dimensions of human health. Ecologies and Politics of Health has explicit makes substantive contributions to research and policy within these fields by addressing three key themes: the socio-political dimensions of human health; the ecological dimensions of health and vulnerability; and the intersections between the social and ecological dimensions of health.

Foreword. 1. Human Health at the Nexus of Ecologies and Politics Section 1: Health within Social and Ecological Systems 2. Positioning Health in a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework 3. Capitals and Context: Bridging Health and Livelihoods in Smallholder Frontiers 4. Change in Tropical Landscapes: Implications for Health and Livelihoods Section 2: Empirical Approaches to Injury and Infectious Disease 5. Buruli Ulcer Disease: The Unknown Environmental and Social Ecology of a Bacterial Pathogen 6. The Ecology of Injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh 7. Human Settlement, Environmental Change, and Frontier Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon Section 3: Disease Histories, the State, and [Mis]Management 8. Vaccines, Fertility, and Power: The Political Ecology of Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Lowland Latin America 9. Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis: Eradication, Control, and Coexistence in Africa 10. Geographies of HIV and Marginalization: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Risk among Mayan Communities in Western Belize 11. The Mosquito State: How Technology, Capital and State Practice Mediate the Ecologies of Public Health Section 4: Health Vulnerabilities 12. Exposure to Heat Stress in Urban Environments 13. Power, Race, and the Neglect of Science: The HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa 14. Disease as Shock, HIV/AIDS as Experience: Coupling Social and Ecological Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa 15. Futures for Ecologies and Politics of Health

Brian King is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Kelley A. Crews is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, USA and currently is on leave as a Visiting Scientist and Program Director at the National Science Foundation, USA.