Brown / McLafferty / Moon A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1477-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography

This Companion provides a comprehensive account of healthand medical geography and approaches the major themes and keytopics from a variety of angles.
* Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health andmedical geography
* Includes contributions from a range of scholars from risingstars to established, internationally renowned authors
* Provides an up-to-date review of the state of thesub-discipline
* Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts ofspecific issues and combine general overviews of the currentliterature with case study material
* Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of thesub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, thepolitics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes ofdespair, and the geography of care

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Tim

McLafferty, Sara

Moon, Graham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1
Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
Part I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 13
2 Health Geography 15
Robin Kearns and Damian Collins
3 Medical Geography 33
Jonathan D. Mayer
4 Doubting Dualisms 55
Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del CasinoJr
Part II Disease 79
5 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81
Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold
6 Mapping Disease 96
Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem
7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111
Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and AndersSchærström
8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133
Myles Gould
9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154
Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root
10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173
Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan
11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Part III Health and Wellbeing 205
12 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207
Allison M. Williams
13 ". . . a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee":Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224
Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck
14 Impairment and Disability 242
Vera Chouinard
15 Mental and Emotional Health 258
Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson
16 Landscapes of Despair 278
Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans
17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301
Susan Craddock and Tim Brown
Part IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 323
18 Health Geography and Public Health 325
Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg
19 Migration and Health 346
Paul Boyle and Paul Norman
20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375
Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian
21 Neighborhoods and Health 399
Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre
22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418
Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis
23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446
Susan J. Elliott
24 Healthy Behavior 460
Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper
25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477
Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson
Part V Health Care and Caring 495
26 Providing Health Care 497
Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland
27 Accessing Health Care 521
Thomas C. Ricketts
28 Location-allocation Planning 540
Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson
29 The Changing Geography of Care 567
Christine Milligan and Andrew Power
30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production,Consumption, Research 587
Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott
Index 604

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Departmentof Geography, Queen Mary University of London. He isSecretary/Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health ResearchGroup and has published numerous authored and co-authored bookchapters and papers.
Sara McLafferty is Professor of Geography at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books includeGIS and Public Health (with Ellen Cromley) (2002) andGeographies of Women's Health (with Isabel Dyck andNancy Lewis) (2001).
Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in HumanGeography at the University of Southampton. He has publishedextensively in medical and health geography and is theeditor-in-chief of the journal Health and Place.