Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography) - Hardcover

Brown, Tim; Andrews, Gavin J.; Cummins, Steven; Greenhough, Beth; Lewis, Daniel; Power, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118739035 ISBN 13: 9781118739037

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017

Synopsis

Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’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

About this title

About the Author

Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (2005), Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (2009), and Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012).

Steven Cummins 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.

Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.

Daniel Lewis 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.

Andrew Power 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, Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Ashgate, 2010) and Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

From the Back Cover

Health Geographies explores critical approaches to health and biomedicine from geographical perspectives while engaging with social theory and issues of difference and inequality. It extends the focus of an already critically-oriented field to include topics such as biosecurity and bioprospecting, health and medical tourism, complexity theory, and the evaluation of public health interventions.

Key topics in health geography are introduced through clear and engaging writing and developed through wide-ranging examples drawn from the authors' areas of geographical interest. A wide range of theoretical ideas and emerging themes in health and healthcare are covered, including such cutting-edge issues as biological citizenship and global health. An extensive series of boxed material on important theoretical concepts, case studies and key authors, as well as discussion questions and suggested readings further enhance clarity.

By offering readers a solid foundation of conceptual frameworks, Health Geographies provides all the necessary tools to facilitate a better understanding of myriad health issues in a twenty-first-century world of diverging experiences of identity, citizenship, power, and inequality.

From the Inside Flap

Health Geographies explores critical approaches to health and biomedicine from geographical perspectives while engaging with social theory and issues of difference and inequality. It extends the focus of an already critically-oriented field to include topics such as biosecurity and bioprospecting, health and medical tourism, complexity theory, and the evaluation of public health interventions.

Key topics in health geography are introduced through clear and engaging writing and developed through wide-ranging examples drawn from the authors' areas of geographical interest. A wide range of theoretical ideas and emerging themes in health and healthcare are covered, including such cutting-edge issues as biological citizenship and global health. An extensive series of boxed material on important theoretical concepts, case studies and key authors, as well as discussion questions and suggested readings further enhance clarity.

By offering readers a solid foundation of conceptual frameworks, Health Geographies provides all the necessary tools to facilitate a better understanding of myriad health issues in a twenty-first-century world of diverging experiences of identity, citizenship, power, and inequality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118739035
• ISBN 13: 9781118739037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304