Description
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction 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.
- Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world
- Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography
- Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers
- Features material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health
- Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study
Table of Contents
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
