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Titolo: |
A companion to health and medical geography / / edited by Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (636 p.) |
Disciplina: | 610.9 |
614.42 | |
Soggetto topico: | Medical geography |
Public health | |
Altri autori: |
BrownTim <1968->
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to health and medical geography ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-20469-X |
1-78034-097-4 | |
9786613204691 | |
1-4051-9738-2 | |
1-4443-1476-9 | |
1-4443-1477-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826477903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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