A Companion to Health and Medical GeographyISBN: 978-1-4051-7003-1
Hardcover
640 pages
December 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1
Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
Part I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 13
2 Health Geography 15
Robin Kearns and Damian Collins
3 Medical Geography 33
Jonathan D. Mayer
4 Doubting Dualisms 55
Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del Casino
Jr
Part II Disease 79
5 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81
Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold
6 Mapping Disease 96
Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem
7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111
Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and Anders
Schærström
8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133
Myles Gould
9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154
Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root
10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173
Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan
11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Part III Health and Wellbeing 205
12 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207
Allison M. Williams
13 “. . . a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee”:
Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224
Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck
14 Impairment and Disability 242
Vera Chouinard
15 Mental and Emotional Health 258
Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson
16 Landscapes of Despair 278
Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans
17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301
Susan Craddock and Tim Brown
Part IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 323
18 Health Geography and Public Health 325
Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg
19 Migration and Health 346
Paul Boyle and Paul Norman
20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375
Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian
21 Neighborhoods and Health 399
Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre
22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418
Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis
23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446
Susan J. Elliott
24 Healthy Behavior 460
Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper
25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477
Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson
Part V Health Care and Caring 495
26 Providing Health Care 497
Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland
27 Accessing Health Care 521
Thomas C. Ricketts
28 Location-allocation Planning 540
Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson
29 The Changing Geography of Care 567
Christine Milligan and Andrew Power
30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production,
Consumption, Research 587
Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott
Index 604