A Companion to Health and Medical GeographyISBN: 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