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A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Tim Brown (Author), Sara McLafferty (Author), Graham Moon (Author)
9781405170031, Wiley
Hardback, published 27 November 2009
640 pages
25.2 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm, 1.315 kg
"This companion is an excellent resource. The linkages between chapters and between thematic sections are excellent, providing a comprehensive account of the current state of the subdiscipline." (Environment and Planning B, January 2011)
A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY 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 covered throughout the text and case studies within chapters draw upon scholarship from around the globe in order to illuminate key points. Organized to promote dialogue and encourage health and medical geographers to rethink sub-disciplinary boundaries, this Companion provides a unique account of the history of the field and its future potential and possibilities.
List of Illustrations viii List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xxiii 1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1 Part I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 13 2 Health Geography 15 3 Medical Geography 33 4 Doubting Dualisms 55 Part II Disease 79 5 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81 6 Mapping Disease 96 7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111 8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133 9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154 10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173 11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188 Part III Health and Wellbeing 205 12 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207 13 “. a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee”: Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224 14 Impairment and Disability 242 15 Mental and Emotional Health 258 16 Landscapes of Despair 278 17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301 Part IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 323 18 Health Geography and Public Health 325 19 Migration and Health 346 20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375 21 Neighborhoods and Health 399 22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418 23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446 24 Healthy Behavior 460 25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477 Part V Health Care and Caring 495 26 Providing Health Care 497 27 Accessing Health Care 521 28 Location-allocation Planning 540 29 The Changing Geography of Care 567 30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research 587 Index 604
Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
Robin Kearns and Damian Collins
Jonathan D. Mayer
Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold
Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem
Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and Anders Schærström
Myles Gould
Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root
Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Allison M. Williams
Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck
Vera Chouinard
Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson
Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans
Susan Craddock and Tim Brown
Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg
Paul Boyle and Paul Norman
Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian
Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre
Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis
Susan J. Elliott
Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper
Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson
Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland
Thomas C. Ricketts
Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson
Christine Milligan and Andrew Power
Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
