Commentary

Adger W N Kelly P M , 1999, “Social vulnerability to climate change and the architecture of entitlements” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 4 253–266.

Bernard S McGeehin M A , 2004, “Municipal heat wave response plans” American Journal of Public Health 94 1520–1522.

Brown P , 1995, “Naming and framing: The social construction of diagnosis and treatment” Journal of Health and Social Behavior extra issue, pp 34–52.

Brown P Zavestoski S McCormick S Mayer B Morello-Frosch R Gasior R , 2004, “Embodied health movements: Uncharted territory in social movement research” Sociology of Health and Illness 26 1–31.

Cadot E Rodwin V G Spira A , 2007, “In the heat of the summer: Lessons from the heat waves in Paris” Journal of Urban Health 84 466–468.

Conrad P Schneider J W , 1992 Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA).

Cox J R Hodges S Parshall L Rosenzweig C Solecki W D , 2005, “Skin of the Big Apple: characterizing the surface heat island of New York City and integration with MM5 climate model”, EPA Conference Call, http://www.epa.gov/hiri/resources/pdf/SurfaceUHI_EPA4.pdf.

Davis R E Knappenberger P C Michaels P J Novicoff W M , 2003, “Changing heat-related mortality in the United States” Environmental Health Perspectives 111 1712–1718.

Diaz J López C Alberdi J C Jordán A García R Hernández E Otero A , 2002. “Heat waves in Madrid, 1986–1997: Effects on the health of the elderly” International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 75 163–170.

Donoghue E R Graham M A Jentzen J M Lifschultz B D Luke J L Mirchandani H G , 1997, “Criteria for the diagnosis of heat-related deaths: National Association of Medical Examiners. Position paper. National Association of Medical Examiners Ad Hoc Committee on the Definition of Heat-Related Fatalities” American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 18 11–14.

Dunier M , 2006, “Ethnography, the ecological fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago heat wave” American Sociological Review 71 679–688.

Ebi K L Meehl G A , 2007, “The heat is on: climate change and heatwaves in the Midwest (excerpt from ‘Regional impacts of climate change: four case studies in the United States')”, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, VA.

Ebi K L Teisberg T J Kalkstein L S Robinson L Weiher R F , 2004, “Heat watch/warning systems save lives: Estimated costs and benefits for Philadelphia 1995–1998” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 85 1067–1073.

Epstein P , 2001, “Climate change and emerging infectious diseases” Microbes and Infection 3 747–754.

Havenith G , 2001, “Individualized model of human thermoregulation for the simulation of heat stress response” Journal of Applied Physiology 90 1943–1954.

Kalkstein A J Sheridan S C , 2007, “The social impacts of the heat—health watch/warning system in Phoenix, Arizona: assessing the perceived risk and response of the public” 52 1.

Klinenberg E , 2002 Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL).

McCormick S , 2009 Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation and the Remaking of Knowledge (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA).

McCormick S , 2010, “Hot or not?: Obstacles to the emergence of climate-induced illness movements”, in Social Movements and Health Care in the United States Eds Banaszak-Holl J Levitsky S R Zald M N (Oxford University Press, Oxford) forthcoming.

Meehl G A Tebaldi C , 2004, “More intense, more frequent, and longer lasting heat waves in the 21st century” Science 305 994–997.

Meyer D , 2004, “Protest and political opportunities” Annual Review of Sociology 30 125–145.

Nixdorf-Miller A Hunsaker D M Hunsaker J C , 2006, “Hypothermia and hyperthermia medicolegal investigation of morbidity and mortality from exposure to environmental temperature extremes” Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 130 1297–1304.

NOAA, 2005, “Heat/health watch warning system improving forecasts and warnings for excessive heat”, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD.

O'Neill M S Zanobetti A Schwartz J , 2005, “Disparities by race in heat-related mortality in four US cities: The role of air conditioning prevalence” Journal of Urban Health 82 191–197.

Shen T Howe H L Alo C Moolenaar R L , 1998, “Toward a broader definition of heat related death: Comparison of mortality estimates from medical examiners' classification with those from total death differentials during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, Illinois” American Journal of Forensic Pathology 19 113–118.

Sheridan S C , 2003, “Heat, mortality, and level of urbanisation” Climate Research 24 255–265.

Sheridan S C , 2006, “A survey of public perception and response to heat warnings across four North American cities: An evaluation of municipal effectiveness” International Journal of Biometeorology 52 3–15.

Sheridan S C Kalkstein L S , 1998, “Health watch/warning systems in urban areas” World Resource Review 10 375–383.

Shimoda Y , 2003, “Adaptation measures for climate change and the urban heat island in Japan's built environment” Building Research and Information 31 222–230.

Smoyer K E Rainham D G Hewko J N , 2000, “Heat stress-related mortality in five cities in Southern Ontario: 1980–1996” International Journal of Biometeorology 44 190–197.

Smoyer-Tomic K E Rainham DGC , 2001, “Beating the heat: Development and evaluation of a Canadian hot weather health-response plan” Environmental Health Perspectives 109 1241–1248.

Timmermans S , 2006 Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL).

Wisner B , 2004, “Disaster risk reduction in megacities: Making the most of human and social capital”, in Building Safer Cities: The Future of Disaster Risk Eds Kreimer A Arnold M Carlin A (World Bank Books, Washington, DC) pp 181–196.