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Published in: EcoHealth 4/2014

01-12-2014 | Essays

No Better Medicine: Health in American Environmental Writing

Authors: Mami Aoyama, Mark J. Hudson

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 4/2014

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Scientists have long noted the links between environmental change and human health, but recent years have seen a notable increase in such research. In 2009, the leading medical journal The Lancet argued that global climate change is the major health threat of the twenty-first century. In the same year, an editorial in the British Medical Journal concluded that failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will probably lead to a “global health catastrophe” (Jay and Marmot 2009). Concern with global warming has spread to allied health professions such as occupational therapy. …
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Metadata
Title
No Better Medicine: Health in American Environmental Writing
Authors
Mami Aoyama
Mark J. Hudson
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
EcoHealth / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-014-0943-x

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