Health Geographies
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Health Geographies

A Critical Introduction

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eBook - PDF

About this book

Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction 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.

  • Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world
  • Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography
  • Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers
  • Features material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health
  • Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study

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Yes, you can access Health Geographies by Tim Brown,Gavin J. Andrews,Steven Cummins,Beth Greenhough,Daniel Lewis,Andrew Power in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Human Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Boxes
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction
  11. Part I Body, Health and Disease
  12. Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care
  13. Part III Producing Health
  14. Part 4 Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine
  15. Index
  16. EULA