Health geographies : a critical introduction /
By: Brown, Tim [author.].
Contributor(s): Andrews, Gavin J [author.] | Cummins, Steven, (Geographer) [author.] | Greenhough, Beth [author.] | Lewis, Daniel (Geographer) [author.] | Power, Andrew [author.].
Series: Critical introductions to geography: Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2018Description: xiii, 289 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781118739037; 9781118739037:; 1118739035; 9781118739020; 1118739027.Subject(s): Medical geography | Geography, Medical | Global HealthDDC classification: 614.42| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The body in health geography / Tim Brown -- Health and place / Gavin J. Andrews -- Landscapes of wellbeing / Gavin J. Andrews -- (Re)Locating, reforming and providing health care -- / Gavin J. Andrews -- Spaces of care / Andrew Power -- Post-asylum geographies / Andrew power -- Ecological approaches to public health / Steven Cummins -- Capturing complexity / Daniel Lewis -- Interventions for population health / Steven Cummins -- Epidemics and biosecurity / Beth Greenhough -- Pharmaceutalisation and medical research / Beth Greenhough -- Global health geographies / Tim Brown.
'Health Geographies' explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field's past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.