A companion to health and medical geography / edited by Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Tim, 1968-

McLafferty, Sara, 1951-

Moon, Graham, 1956-

Series:

Blackwell companions to geography ; 8.

Blackwell companions to geography ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 geographyIncludes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authorsProvides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-disciplineThematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study mat

Contents:

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction to Health and Medical Geography; Part I: Debates in Health and Medical Geography; Chapter 2: Health Geography; Chapter 3: Medical Geography; Chapter 4: Doubting Dualisms; Part II: Disease; Chapter 5: Disease, Ecology, and Environment; Chapter 6: Mapping Disease; Chapter 7: Infectious Disease Diffusion; Chapter 8: Modeling Chronic Disease; Chapter 9: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases; Chapter 10: Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography

Chapter 11: Living With and Experiencing DiseasePart III: Health and Wellbeing; Chapter 12: Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places; Chapter 13: "... a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee": Sex and Gender in Health Geography; Chapter 14: Impairment and Disability; Chapter 15: Mental and Emotional Health; Chapter 16: Landscapes of Despair; Chapter 17: Representing the Un/healthy Body; Part IV: Public Health and Health Inequalities; Chapter 18: Health Geography and Public Health; Chapter 19: Migration and Health; Chapter 20: Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities

Chapter 21: Neighborhoods and HealthChapter 22: An Environmental Health Geography of Risk; Chapter 23: Environment, Perception, and Resistance; Chapter 24: Healthy Behavior; Chapter 25: Governing Un/healthy Populations; Part V: Health Care and Caring; Chapter 26: Providing Health Care; Chapter 27: Accessing Health Care; Chapter 28: Location-allocation Planning; Chapter 29: The Changing Geography of Care; Chapter 30: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613204691

9781283204699

128320469X

9781780340975

1780340974

9781405197380

1405197382

9781444314762

1444314769

9781444314779

1444314777

OCLC:

551205057