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A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

ISBN: 9781405170031 | 1405170034
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 12/21/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues relating to health and illness.Whilst thoroughly mapping out the territory covered by the sub-discipline and examining changes in focus and terminology, this book offers a discussion of the major themes from differing methodological and theoretical perspectives. Questions of class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are cover... MORE
List of Illustrationsp. viii
List of Contributorsp. xi
Acknowledgementsp. xxiii
Introduction to Health and Medical Geographyp. 1
Debates in Health and Medical Geographyp. 13
Health Geographyp. 15
Medical Geographyp. 33
Doubting Dualismsp. 55
Diseasep. 79
Disease, Ecology, and Environmentp. 8... MORE
Mapping Diseasep. 96
Infectious Disease Diffusionp. 111
Modeling Chronic Diseasep. 133
Emerging and Re-emerging Diseasesp. 154
Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geographyp. 173
Living with and Experiencing Diseasep. 188
Health and Wellbeingp. 205
Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Placesp. 207
"... a Penis is Not Needed in Order to Pee": Sex and Gender in Health Geographyp. 224
Impairment and Disabilityp. 242
Mental and Emotional Healthp. 258
Landscapes of Despairp. 278
Representing the Un/healthy Bodyp. 301
Public Health and Health Inequalitiesp. 323
Health Geography and Public Healthp. 325
Migration and Healthp. 346
Social Perspectives on Health Inequalitiesp. 375
Neighborhoods and Healthp. 399
An Environmental Health Geography of Riskp. 418
Environment, Perception, and Resistancep. 446
Healthy Behaviorp. 460
Governing Un/healthy Populationsp. 477
Health Care and Caringp. 495
Providing Health Carep. 497
Accessing Health Carep. 521
Location-allocation Planningp. 540
The Changing Geography of Carep. 567
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Researchp. 587
Indexp. 604
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Tim Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group and has published numerous authored and co-authored book chapters and papers.

Sara McLafferty is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include GIS and Public Health (with Ellen Cromley) (2002) and Geographies of Women’s Health (with Isabel Dyck and Nancy Lewis) (2001).

Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively in medical and health geography and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Health and Place.



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