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• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I Mapping an Irregular Terrain
• 1. Our Overheating, Fraying Planet
• 2. Feeding a Growing Population: How, and with What Kind of Food?
• 3. Water: Not Everywhere and Not Always Fit to Drink
• 4. Chronic Illness: Rich or Poor, Few Escape
• 5. Obesity: The Scourge of Bad Diets and Sedentary Habits
• II Examining the Pathways Through the Thickets
• 6. Always More People and Ever More Elderly: Caring and Paying
• 7. The Technology Fix: A Way Out?
• 8. A Volatile Mix: Public Policy, the Media, and Public Opinion
• 9. Law and Governance: Managing Our Public Planet and Our Private Bodies
• III Toward the Future: Progress, Hope, and Fear
• 10. Progress and Its Errant Children: More Is Never Enough
• 11. The Necessary Coalition: Social Movements, Legislatures, and Business
• Notes
• Index