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A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

by: Brown, Tim; McLafferty, Sara; Moon, Graham

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

by: Brown, Tim; McLafferty, Sara; Moon, Graham

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/21/2009
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care

List of Illustrations	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xxiii
Introduction to Health and Medical Geography	p. 1
Debates in Health and Medical Geography	p. 13
Health Geography	p. 15
Medical Geography	p. 33
Doubting Dualisms	p. 55
Disease	p. 79
Disease, Ecology, and Environment	p. 81
Mapping Disease	p. 96
Infectious Disease Diffusion	p. 111
Modeling Chronic Disease	p. 133
Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases	p. 154
Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography	p. 173
Living with and Experiencing Disease	p. 188
Health and Wellbeing	p. 205
Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places	p. 207
"... a Penis is Not Needed in Order to Pee": Sex and Gender in Health Geography	p. 224
Impairment and Disability	p. 242
Mental and Emotional Health	p. 258
Landscapes of Despair	p. 278
Representing the Un/healthy Body	p. 301
Public Health and Health Inequalities	p. 323
Health Geography and Public Health	p. 325
Migration and Health	p. 346
Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities	p. 375
Neighborhoods and Health	p. 399
An Environmental Health Geography of Risk	p. 418
Environment, Perception, and Resistance	p. 446
Healthy Behavior	p. 460
Governing Un/healthy Populations	p. 477
Health Care and Caring	p. 495
Providing Health Care	p. 497
Accessing Health Care	p. 521
Location-allocation Planning	p. 540
The Changing Geography of Care	p. 567
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research	p. 587
Index	p. 604
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A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

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