The war machine and global health : a critical medical anthropological examination of the human costs of armed conflict and the international violence industry / edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The Myriad Impacts of the War Machine on Global Health / Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge -- Pt. 1. The War Machine and Global Morbidity and Mortality -- Ch. 1. The Echoes of War: Effects of Early Malnutrition on Adult Health / Patrick F. Clarkin -- Ch. 2. War and the Public Health Disaster in Iraq / Scott Harding and Kathryn Libal -- Ch. 3. Children and Revolution: Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being of Child Soldiers in Nepal / Brandon A. Kohrt, Wietse A. Tol, Judith Pettigrew and Rohit Karki -- Pt. 2. The Environment of War and Its Impact on the Human Environment -- Ch. 4. The Causes and Human Costs of Targeting Iraq / Elaine A. Hills and Dahlia S. Wasfi -- Ch. 5. The Impact of the War Machine on Global Warming and Health: A Political-Ecological Perspective / Hans Baer -- Ch. 6. Dying of Sorrow: Expulsion, Empire, and the People of Diego Garcia / David Vine -- Pt. 3. The War Machine and the Machinery of Human Social Life -- Ch. 7. Hasbara, Health Care, and the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories / Avram Bornstein -- Ch. 8. Waging War on the Wageless: Extrajudicial Killings, Private Armies, and the Poor of Honduras / Adrienne Pine -- Ch. 9. Olive Drab and White Coats: U.S. Military Medical Teams Interoperating with Guatemala / Abigail E. Adams -- Conclusion: The Political Economy and Critical Geography of the War Machine / G. Derrick Hodge and Merrill Singer.

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical perspective of critical medical anthropology, and morebroadly by the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading medical anthropo.