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In a globalized and constantly changing world, where it is easier to travel but which is also more chaotic and difficult to control, the concepts of health and illness are changing: they are no longer simple biological processes but complex phenomena which involve the environmental, social, economic, political and cultural spheres. Today, climate change, migratory flows, the economic crisis and the industrialization of food production are fundamental phenomena in order to understand the state of well-being (or illness) of populations. Vineis draws a complete picture of the aspects which make up global health, and offers a strong argument on the political level: in such a mobile and articulated panorama, health at global level could be going towards a deterioration similar to what is taking place in the economy.

Paolo Vineis is a professor at Imperial College, London, where he teaches Global Health, and conducts research on the environmental causes of cancer and the effects of climate change. For Codice edizioni he has already published Equivoci bioetici (2006) and Lost in translation (2011)