Increasing calls from medical professionals and scholars suggest an urgent need for better
and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health. Such calls …

Significant changes in the natural environment over the past 40 years pose key challenges
to health and health care in the 21st century. Health care has not yet given serious attention …

This article explores the concept of 'world'as it frequently appears across health studies;
specifically largely humanistic and phenomenological variations in use of 'the world'and …

The threat posed to global health by climate change has been widely discussed
internationally. The United Kingdom public health community seem to have accepted this as …

In the first issue of Medical Humanities we raised the question of the relationship between
medical ethics (or bioethics) and medical humanities, and this question is presently …

Anthropogenic climate change, with co-factors, threatens civilization, and thus human
health. I first show that climate change is an important element of a system of hazards called …

One Health can be defined as any added value in terms of health of humans and animals,
financial savings or environmental services achievable by the cooperation of human and …

Four decades ago, several health movements were sprouting in isolation. In 1980, the
environmental group Friends of the Earth expanded the World Health Organization definition …

Abstract Tony McMichael's 1999 essay,'Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the
Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change', published by the American Journal of …

EDITORIAL 1 www. medicalhumanities. com some of the areas in which practical resources
and intellectual inquiries interpenetrate—areas, therefore, in which the evidence must be …