{"title":"Hans Baer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Baer's works explore the intersection of health, environment, and society with a keen analytical eye. His books delve into topics such as complementary medicine and the intricate links between global warming and public health, offering insightful perspectives grounded in social and environmental sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the complex dynamics of science, nature, and their political implications will find Baer's writing both thought-provoking and accessible. His texts invite reflection on contemporary challenges and the evolving discourse surrounding health and ecological change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"global-warming-and-the-political-ecology-of-health-by-merrill-singer-9781598743548","title":"Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between environmental change and disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also go beyond the traditional concept of disease to examine changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, land-use, and lifeways, throwing the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of climate change into stark relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing the systemic structures of inequality underlying global warming, they also issue a call to action, arguing that \u003cem\u003efundamental changes in the world system are essential\u003c\/em\u003e to the mitigation of an array of emerging health crises linked to anthropogenic climate and environmental change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605953265900,"sku":"9781598743548","price":93.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/80a6e996c3d28c4f3b650ea1e90543e8.jpg?v=1788150082"},{"product_id":"complementary-medicine-in-australia-and-new-zealand-by-hans-baer-9780975742273","title":"Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs regular medicine increasingly assumed the guise of being scientific, it evolved into biomedicine and developed a link with corporate and state interests in the early twentieth century in Australia, as in other capitalist developed societies. Relying upon state support, Australian biomedicine has achieved dominance over alternative medical systems, such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, and naturopathy. Various social forces, particularly the development of the holistic health movement, have served to challenge biomedical dominance in Australia, like elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat started out as a popular health movement in the early 1970s has evolved into the professionalized entity that is generally referred to as \u003cem\u003ecomplementary medicine\u003c\/em\u003e in Australia (as opposed to 'complementary and alternative medicine' in the US and UK). Complementary medicine in Australia encompasses many medical systems and therapies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince the 1980s, certain heterodox medical systems, particularly chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, naturopathy, Western herbalism, and homeopathy, have achieved considerable recognition from the Australian state, either at the federal level or at the state and territorial levels. Indeed, the Australian state appears to have gone further than any other Anglophone country in terms of providing public funding for complementary medicine education. Conversely, it has committed a limited amount of funding for complementary medicine research compared to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932134457580,"sku":"9780975742273","price":205.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780975742273-complementary-medicine-in-australia-and-new-zealand.jpg?v=1783853420"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/hans-baer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}