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Health Geographies
eBook - A Critical Introduction, Critical Introductions to Geography
Brown, Tim/Power, Andrew/Lewis, Daniel et al
ISBN/EAN: 9781118738993
Umbreit-Nr.: 4228075
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 304 S., 7.14 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 03.05.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction</i> 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.<br /><br /><ul><li>Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world</li><li>Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography</li><li>Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers</li><li>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</li><li>Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study</li></ul>
- Kurztext
- Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field&rsquo;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
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b> Tim Brown</b> is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of<i>A Companion to Health and Medical Geography</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and<i>Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals</i> (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of<i>The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).<p><b> Gavin J. Andrews</b> is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include<i>Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice</i> (2005),<i>Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place</i> (2009), and<i>Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine</i> (2012).<p><b> Steven Cummins</b> 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.<p><b> Beth Greenhough</b> is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of<i>Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals</i> (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.<p><b> Daniel Lewis</b> 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.<p><b> Andrew Power</b> 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,<i> Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving</i>(Ashgate, 2010) and<i>Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2013).