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Health and inequality : geographical perspectives / Sarah Curtis.
LIBRA RA418 .C877 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Sarah, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Health services accessibility.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Introducing Geographical Perspectives on Health and Inequality 1
- Section I Geographical Landscapes of Health 27
- 2 Therapeutic Landscapes: wellness, healing places and complementary therapies 28
- 3 Landscapes of Power: surveillance, exclusion and social control 52
- 4 Landscapes of Poverty and Wealth 84
- 5 Landscapes of Consumption: care and commodification 113
- 6 Ecological Landscapes: populations, air, water and ground 151
- Section II Integrating Landscape Perspectives: Aspects of Health in Urban Settings 191
- 7 The Geography of Mental Health in Cities 192
- 8 Geography of an Infectious Disease: the example of tuberculosis 226
- 9 Health Geography in Strategies to Improve Public Health 250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-321) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0761968229
- 0761968237
- OCLC:
- 55738392
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