Hans Baer: 9 books

Book cover of Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health

Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health

Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

by Hans Baer, Merrill Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology,...
Book cover of Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand

Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand

Its popularisation, legitimation and dilemmas

by Hans Baer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015

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 in the sense that while regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one in...
Book cover of Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Transitioning to an Alternative World System

by Hans A. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of...
Book cover of Toward an Integrative Medicine

Toward an Integrative Medicine

Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

by Hans A. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004

This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing...
Book cover of The Little Book of Mormon: 11 Experts Explain the History, Beliefs, and Rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
by Authors: Hans A. Baer, Sherry Baker, Brian D. Birch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

In The Little Book of Mormon, eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousnessand public controversy. Now, as a Mormon politician attempts...
Book cover of Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System
by Hans A. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism. This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits...
Book cover of Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition
by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide. As in the previous versions...
Book cover of The Anthropology of Climate Change

The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Integrated Critical Perspective

by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic...
Book cover of Urban Eco-Communities in Australia

Urban Eco-Communities in Australia

Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?

by Liam Cooper, Hans A. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne....
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