Beschreibung
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the fields past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.
Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the worldIncorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geographyIdentifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographersFeatures material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of healthProvides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study
Autorenportrait
Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor ofA Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) andBodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor ofThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books includeAging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (2005),Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (2009), andTraditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012).
Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine. He has published widely across the medical and social sciences on socio-environmental inequalities in health and health behaviour and the evaluation of health and social policies to reduce them.
Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor ofBodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.
Daniel Lewis is Research Fellow in Spatial Analysis at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a quantitative Health Geographer who is interested in the socio-spatial dimensions of health, welfare, and inequality.
Andrew Power is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. His research interests focus on the geographies of caregiving and disability, and the post-asylum geographies of mental health. He has published widely in leading journals as well as two recent books, Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving(Ashgate, 2010) andActive Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Inhalt
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Boxes ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xii
1 Introduction 1
Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Dan Lewis, Andrew Power
Part I Body, Health and Disease 21
2 The Body in Health Geography 23
Tim Brown
3 Health and Place 39
Gavin J. Andrews
Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 57
4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 59
Gavin J. Andrews
5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 75
Gavin J. Andrews
6 Spaces of Care 95
Andrew Power
7 Post?]Asylum Geographies 114
Andrew Power
Part III Producing Health 135
8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 137
Steve Cummins
9 Capturing Complexity 156
Dan Lewis
10 Interventions for Population Health 174
Steve Cummins
Part IV Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 191
11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 193
Beth Greenhough
12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 215
Beth Greenhough
13 Health and Medical Tourism 234
Beth Greenhough
14 Global Health Geographies 251
Tim Brown
Index
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