A companion to health and medical geography / / edited by Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826477903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 9786613204691; 9781283204699; 128320469X; 9781780340975; 1780340974; 9781405197380; 1405197382; 9781444314762; 1444314769; 9781444314779; 1444314777
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (636 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to geography ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): BrownTim <1968->; McLaffertySara <1951->; MoonGraham <1956->
• Disciplina: 610.9; 614.42
• Soggetti: Medical geography; Public health
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Health and Medical Geography; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction to Health and Medical Geography; Part I: Debates in Health and Medical Geography; Chapter 2: Health Geography; Chapter 3: Medical Geography; Chapter 4: Doubting Dualisms; Part II: Disease; Chapter 5: Disease, Ecology, and Environment; Chapter 6: Mapping Disease; Chapter 7: Infectious Disease Diffusion; Chapter 8: Modeling Chronic Disease; Chapter 9: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases; Chapter 10: ; Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography; Chapter 11: Living With and Experiencing DiseasePart III: Health and Wellbeing; Chapter 12: Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places; Chapter 13: "... a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee": Sex and Gender in Health Geography; Chapter 14: Impairment and Disability; Chapter 15: Mental and Emotional Health; Chapter 16: Landscapes of Despair; Chapter 17: Representing the Un/healthy Body; Part IV: Public Health and Health Inequalities; Chapter 18: Health Geography and Public Health; Chapter 19: Migration and Health; Chapter 20: Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities; Chapter 21: Neighborhoods and HealthChapter 22: An Environmental Health Geography of Risk; Chapter 23: Environment, Perception, and Resistance; Chapter 24: Healthy Behavior; Chapter 25: Governing Un/healthy Populations; Part V: Health Care and Caring; Chapter 26: Providing Health Care; Chapter 27: Accessing Health Care; Chapter 28: Location-allocation Planning; Chapter 29: The Changing Geography of Care; Chapter 30: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles.Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geographyIncludes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authorsProvides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-disciplineThematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study mat