Preventing War and Promoting Peace A Guide for Health Professionals [Paperback]

Preventing War and Promoting Peace focuses on how health professionals can actively engage in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.This book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. It provides a broad perspective of war and health, with an emphasis on actively engaging to prevent the underlying, politically-charged causes of war.This book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. It provides a broad perspective of war and health, with an emphasis on actively engaging to prevent the underlying, politically-charged causes of war.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.List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Foreword Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel; Preface Shelley K. White; Acknowledgements; Introduction: intersections of militarism, imperialism and corporate power as context for the prevention of war and promotion of peace William H. Wiist; Pl³‡