Treating Medicine 31.3

20 July, 2005
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Editorial: The Nature of Health

The late 19th and early 20th centuries drew pictures of health and disease in the broad strokes of the public hygiene movement, which brought us the miraculous successes of clean water, sewage disposal and food safety. These improvements were contingent, however, on a continuing supply of resources, and on political, social and ecological stability.

Editorial The Nature of Health

The Last Word
Stephen Bocking
Neil Arya interviews legendary epidemiologist John Last.

Ecosystem Health
John Howard
Prescribing a new vision for the future of medicine.

An Ounce of Prevention
Sarah Wakefield
Since the Industrial Revolution, public health has fostered healthy environments to prevent disease.

Greening Health Care
Neil Arya, Shannon-Melissa Dunlop and Jean Zigby
Hospitals are beginning to recognize their massive environmental impacts and to take steps toward greener management practices.

New School
Robert Woollard
Innovations in medical faculties will teach students to focus on the overall health of society and the environment.

Poverty Ted Schrecker
Denial Warren Bell
Two answers to the question: What is the most serious global health problem linked to environmental conditions?

Drugs and Bugs
Scott A. McEwen
The widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture may build resistant bacteria and affect our ability to treat human disease.

Zoonoses
D. Charron, D. Waltner-Toews, K. Butt, and A.R. Maarouf
Climate change affects the modes by which diseases are passed from animals to humans.

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News & Notes

Science Desk
Liann Bobechko and Steve Stockton
Two kinds of fungi are being tested to combat malaria.

Letter from Ottawa
Michelle Meyer
Naturopathic medicine includes physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual objectives.

When the Boy Met the Bear
Simon Jackson
At age 13, Simon Jackson gave a voice to the endangered Spirit Bear in BC, and now they are off to Hollywood.

Alien Invasions
Justin Duncan
It’s back to the legal drawing board for Canadians who want to stop the spread of invasive species.

Reviews

Reclaiming Public Water, edited by Belén Balanyá et al.
Nature’s Experts by Stephen Bocking
Towards a Grand Sense of Place, edited by Gordon Nelson

On the Shelf

Jocelyn Brown’s One Good Outfit is a classic guide book to covert high-caloric schmoozing.

Brain Mulch
Ryan D. Kennedy
Ryan assesses the PBS decision to put Cookie Monster on a new diet.

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