Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribu...
Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribu...
Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding / edited by Colin D. Butler, Jane Dixon and Anthony G. Capon.
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Acton ACT, Australia Australian National University Press, [2015]
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xlvii, 641 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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text
still image
Media type
computer
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online resource
Contents
Part 1: Introduction -- Reprint A: Preface to 'planetary overload: global environmental change and the health of the human species' -- From silent spring to the threat of a four-degree world / Colin D. Butler and Alistair Woodward -- A long collaboration / Basil S. Hetzel -- Much said, much to be do...
Part 5: Climate change and health -- Reprint G: Global warming, ecological disruption and human health: the penny drops / Anthony J. McMichael -- Fragile paradise / Lachlan McIver and Elizabeth Hanna -- From social reform to social transformation / Hilary Bambrick and Stefano Moncada -- Climate chan...
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Publisher
Acton ACT, Australia Australian National University Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
Australian Capital Territory
Date Published
[2015]
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Online access available only to subscribers.
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Summary
This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942?2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary context and in ways that highlight the interdependency between the environment, human institutions and behaviours; a broad...
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Health of people, places and planet : reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding / edited by Colin D. Butler, Jane Dixon and Anthony G. Capon.
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Notes
General note
"Traditionally, festschrifts are books. 'Fest' conveys celebration, 'schrift' denotes text. In this case, we assert both the conference and this book were part of Tony's festschrift with an Australian flavour"--Footnote, xxi.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Also available in print.
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Electronic reproduction.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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74VKVGllLm43
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGllLm43
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ISBN
1925022412
9781925022414
DDC
614.4
MMS ID
991024156701802626
