{"product_id":"health-geographies-isbn-9781118739037","title":"Health Geographies","description":"\u003ci\u003eHealth Geographies: A Critical Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Boxes ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Dan Lewis, Andrew Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Body, Health and Disease 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Body in Health Geography 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Health and Place 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin J. Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin J. Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin J. Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Spaces of Care 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Post-Asylum Geographies 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Producing Health 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Cummins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Capturing Complexity 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDan Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Interventions for Population Health 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Cummins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 191\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth Greenhough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth Greenhough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Health and Medical Tourism 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth Greenhough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Global Health Geographies 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Tim Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Health and Medical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eBodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Gavin J. Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include \u003ci\u003eAging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003ePrimary Health Care: People, Practice, Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and \u003ci\u003eTraditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Steven Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene \u0026amp; 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Beth Greenhough\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Daniel Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Andrew Power\u003c\/b\u003e 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,\u003ci\u003e Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving \u003c\/i\u003e(Ashgate, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eActive Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2013).      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Health Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By offering readers a solid foundation of conceptual frameworks, \u003ci\u003eHealth Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989351055589,"sku":"NP9781118739037","price":70.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118739037.jpg?v=1761783774","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/health-geographies-isbn-9781118739037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}