Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen
in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of …

Biological anthropologists are ideally suited for the study of pandemics given their strengths
in human biology, health, culture, and behavior, yet pandemics have historically not been a …

The question of global health has, at least since 9/11,(re) emerged as one of the world's key
geopolitical issues and, as many scholars have noted, this increased attention to the state of …

Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific
Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than …

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is the dominant means of defining and diagnosing obesity in
national and international public health policy. This paper draws on geographical …

A key focus for geographical and policy work on obesity has involved interrogating the
concept of an 'obesogenic environment'–an environment with particular physical, social and …

The fastest growing ethnoracial group in the United States, Asian Americans are the most
highly educated, the highest earning, and the most likely to intermarry. Once deemed …

x PREFACE until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Chinese citizens started to visit the
United States in increasingly large numbers for the first time since 1949. American …

It has been a while since the last batch of progress reports on medical geography (Kearns,
1995; 1996; 1997), and these marked some of the evolving agendas in the 'new'medical and …

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its
taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with …