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A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7003-1
Hardcover
640 pages
December 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 geography
  • Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors
  • Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline
  • Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material
  • Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care

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