Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1282g
• ISBN-13: 9781405170031
• ISBN-10: 1405170034
• Artikelnr.: 27474717

Autorenporträt

THE EDITORS Tim Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group and has published numerous authored and co-authored book chapters and papers. Sara McLafferty is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include GIS and Public Health (with Ellen Cromley) (2002) and Geographies of Women's Health (with Isabel Dyck and Nancy Lewis) (2001). Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively in medical and health geography and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Health and Place .

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Debates
in Health and Medical Geography Part II: Disease Part III: Health and
Wellbeing Part IV: Public Health and Health Inequalities Part V: Health
Care and Caring Index