The coronavirus pandemic has shattered our world with increased morbidity, mortality, and
personal/social sufferings. At the time of this writing, we are in a biomedical race for …

The concept of planetary health blurs the artificial lines between health at scales of person,
place and planet. At the same time, it emphasizes the integration of biological …

This essay expands on the previous discussion,“Positioning Ethos”(Baumlin and Meyer
2018), which outlined a theory of ethos for the 21st century. There, my coauthor and I …

I have been involved in studying and working within what is now called the Anthropocene for
almost 50 years, and in all that time, not only have we failed to make much progress, but the …

Health futures are not preordained, nor are they entirely predictable by extrapolation from
the past. This is particularly relevant in an era of unprecedented uncertainties converging …

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which
the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or …

The term planetary health, popularized in the 1980s and 1990s, was born out of necessity;
although the term was used by many diverse groups, it was consistently used to underscore …

Affordable and conceptually accessible, this succinct volume captures the distinctive
anthropological perspective on global health issues for undergraduates in the social and …

This is largely a theoretical, speculative essay that takes on the question of what 'care'looks
like at a moment when climate change is increasingly taking center stage in public and …

Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global
health's practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and …