Locating Health (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health
Redaktion: Dyck, Erika; Fletcher, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317322771
• Artikelnr.: 43417867

Autorenporträt

Erika Dyck, Christopher Fletcher

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Healthscapes: Health and Place Among and Between Disciplines
Erika Dyck
Christopher Fletcher; Chapter 1 Placing Maternal Health in India
Helen Vallianatos; Chapter 2 Putting Medicine in its Place: The Importance of Historical Geography to the History of Health Care
Jonathan Reinarz; Chapter 3 Finding Place in the Big-Little World of Doc Pritham: Telling Medical Tales About Northwoods Maine
1920s-70s
Sasha Mullally; Chapter 4 Putting Hyperactivity in its Place: Cold War Politics
the Brain Race and the Origins of Hyperactivity in the United States
1957-68
Matthew Smith; Chapter 5 Why Canada has a Universal Medical Insurance Programme and the United States Does not: Accounting for Historical Differences in American and Canadian Social Policies
Alvin Finkel; Chapter 6 Alberta Advantage: A Canadian Proving Ground for American Medical Research on Mustard Gas and Polio in the 1940s and 50s
Susan L. Smith
Stephen Mawdsley; Chapter 7 Placing Illness in its Cultural Territory in Veracruz
Nicaragua
Hugo De Burgos; Chapter 8 Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin
1890-1960
Liza Piper; Chapter 9 'An Ideal Home for the Consumptive: Place
Race and Tuberculosis in the Canadian West'
Maureen Lux; Chapter 10 Serbian Landscapes of Dreamtime and Healing: Clear Streams
Stones of Prophesy
St Sava's Ribs
and the Wooden City of Oz
Marko ivkovi?;