Planetary Health Histories: Toward New Ecologies of Epidemiology?

Anderson, Warwick; Dunk, James

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“…The nature of this coupling depends on local arrangements and interpersonal interactions, which are extended by population migration as well as information and communication technologies that allow connections with distant others but that also create virtual environments that we increasingly inhabit (267, 268). In the current moment, relationships on the planetary scale are increasingly present and consequential in the lives of individuals through the impacts of climate change (269,270). These interactions occur in material ways, but they are also present in self concepts, imagination and orientation toward the future with significant mental health impacts.…”

Section: An Ecosocial Systems Approach To Person-centered Clinical Pr...mentioning

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“…In the current moment, relationships on the planetary scale are increasingly present and consequential in the lives of individuals through the impacts of climate change ( 269 , 270 ). These interactions occur in material ways, but they are also present in self concepts, imagination and orientation toward the future with significant mental health impacts.…”

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A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo

Kirmayer

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology, mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and adaptation through ongoing interactions with the social environment. Symptoms or disorders emerge in specific social contexts and involve predicaments that cannot be fully characterized in terms of brain function but require a larger social-ecological view. Causal processes that result in mental health problems can begin anywhere within the extended system of body-person-environment. In particular, individuals’ narrative self-construal, culturally mediated interpretations of symptoms and coping strategies as well as the responses of others in the social world contribute to the mechanisms of mental disorders, illness experience, and recovery. In this paper, we outline the conceptual basis and practical implications of a hierarchical ecosocial systems view for an integrative approach to psychiatric theory and practice. The cultural-ecosocial systems view we propose understands mind, brain and person as situated in the social world and as constituted by cultural and self-reflexive processes. This view can be incorporated into a pragmatic approach to clinical assessment and case formulation that characterizes mechanisms of pathology and identifies targets for intervention.

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Section: An Ecosocial Systems Approach To Person-centered Clinical Pr...mentioning

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A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo

Kirmayer

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Anxieties about climate change and the breakdown of the planet’s life-support systems became ever more pressing in the years leading up to the advent of the novel coronavirus. The development of One Health in the early 2000s (Woods et al 2018 ; Anderson 2023 ) and the emergence of Planetary Health (Anderson and Dunk 2022 ) in the past decade have added impetus to moves toward reconciliation of bioethics and environmental ethics. One Health directed attention to the roles of non-human animals in the spread of infectious diseases, to zoonoses which often burst forth into epidemic outbreaks.…”

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“… 5 EcoHealth also emerged in the early 2000s, initially emphasizing the physical environment in distinction from One Health’s focus on interspecies disease transmission, but after a decade or so, it became effectively subsumed into One Health (Anderson and Dunk 2022 ). …”

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Toward Planetary Health Ethics? Refiguring Bios in Bioethics

Anderson

2023

Bioethical Inquiry

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In responding to perceived crises—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—in routinized ways, contemporary bioethics can make us prisoners of the proximate. Rather, we need bioethics to recognize and engage with complex configurations of global ecosystem degradation and collapse, thereby showing us paths toward co-inhabiting the planet securely and sustainably. Such a planetary health ethics might draw rewardingly on Indigenous knowledge practices or Indigenous philosophical ecologies. It will require ethicists, with other health professionals, to step up and become public advocates for environmental sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic should be seen as opening a portal to planetary health ethics or ecologized bioethics.

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“…Colonialism meanwhile propelled the combined processes of disease transmission (Alden & Miller, 1987; Metcalf, 2005) and landscape transformation (Dean, 1987, 1995; Faria, 2009; Miller, 2000) simultaneously across multiple sites of colonial settlement. But with few exceptions, scholarship has yet to offer an interpretive synthesis of environmental and epidemiological transformations as interrelated, synergistic phenomena in a single colonial setting, or to systematically explore possible linkages between such ecosystemic transformations as they unfolded in ostensibly disparate and disconnected theaters of colonialism (Direito, 2020; Anderson & Dunk, 2022 are highly suggestive on this score).…”

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From colonialism to global health: Frameworks for the history of medicine in Portugal's empire

Cagle

2023

History Compass

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Portugal's empire brought together peoples and pathogens, along with wide‐ranging forms of medical expertise and curative practice, into multiethnic and polyglot colonial settlements around the globe. Many aspects of Portuguese imperial policy and much of the work of colonial institutions were fundamentally linked to the challenges of disease, population loss, and the preservation of health. Only in the last half‐century have these dynamics become an area of intensive archival research. The present essay surveys major developments in the history of medicine in Portugal's empire. It links historiographical shifts to the intellectual currents that accompanied colonialism, decolonization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of global health—identifying key interventions and noting significant opportunities for future research.

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Planetary Health Histories: Toward New Ecologies of Epidemiology?

Cited by 4 publications

References 67 publications

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Toward Planetary Health Ethics? Refiguring Bios in Bioethics

From colonialism to global health: Frameworks for the history of medicine in Portugal's empire

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