Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media. Comprising contributions by academics and practitioners from the fields of public health, medicine, nursing, law, sociology, psychology, political science, and peace and conflict studies, as well as representatives from organizations active in war prevention, the book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. Preventing War and Promoting Peace provides hard-hitting facts about the devastating health effects of war and a broad perspective on war and health, presenting a new paradigm for the proactive engagement of health professions in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.
Author(s): William H. Wiist, Shelley K. White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 371
City: Cambridge
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frontmatter
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
part i The Health Effects of War and Weapons of War
1 The Effects of War on Combatants, Veterans, and Their Families
2 The Health Effects of War on Civilians
3 The Consequences of War on the Natural Environment
4 Weapons of War and Mass Destruction
part ii Social Determinants of War
5 The Normalization of Militarism and Propensity for War
6 Structural Violence and War
7 Under What Conditions Does Ethnic Conflict Result in Armed Violence?
8 The War Profiteers
9 News as Entertainment
10 The Quiet Military Buyout of Academia
part iii Preventing War and Promoting Peace
11 Use of Complex Systems Modeling to Strengthen Public Health’s Role in Preventing War
12 The Ethics of War and Peace in the Contemporary Era
13 The Role of International Law in Preventing War and Promoting Peace
14 Lessons from a Historical View of Health Organizations Activism for the Prevention of War
15 A Gluttonous Military Budget Leaves our Social Welfare in Poor Health
16 Pacifism and Conscientious Objection: War Resistance in the United States
17 Countering Military Recruitment in High Schools
18 Civil Disobedience and Direct Action in the Prevention of War
19 Advocacy Skills for the Primary Prevention of War
part iv Teaching and Research in the Health Professions Toward the Prevention of War
20 Teaching and Learning Methods for Engaging Health Professionals in the Prevention of War
21 Conducting Health Research toward Preventing War and Promoting Peace
Appendix 1 Public Health Competencies for the Prevention of War
Appendix 2 “War, Militarism, and Health: Toward Primary Prevention”: A Syllabus Outline
Appendix 3 Additional Resources
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