Hans Baer

In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyse the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental...

In the late nineteenth century, on the eve of the formation of Australia as a nation-state in 1902, the Australian medical system could be best described as a pluralistic one. While regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one, as regular physicians faced competition from a wide array of alternative practitioners. As regular medicine...