Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction [Hardcover]

• 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

List of Figures vii

List of Tables viii

List of Boxes ix

Notes on Contributors x

Foreword xii

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Introduction 1
Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Daniel 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
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