Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography) - Hardcover

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Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (2005), Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (2009) and Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012).
 
Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) and Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate 2015), and associate editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).
 
Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene & 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.
 
Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She isco-editor of Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics and the history of medical research.
 
Daniel Lewis 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.
 
Andrew Power is a Lecturer 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 including recent papers, Social Science and Medicine (2013) and Journal of Social Policy (2014), as well as two recent books, Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (2010) with Ashgate and Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (2013) with Cambridge University Press.

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Health Geographies 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.

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.

By offering readers a solid foundation of conceptual frameworks, Health Geographies 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.

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Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction 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.
 
Key topics in health geography are introduced through clear and engaging writing and developed through wide-ranging examples drawn from the author's 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.
 
By offering readers a solid foundation of conceptual frameworks, Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction provides all the necessary tools to facilitate a better understanding of myriad health issues in a 21st-century world of diverging experiences of identity, citizenship, power and inequality.