Health Geographies

A Critical Introduction

• Author(s): Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Daniel Lewis, Andrew Power,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1118739019
  ISBN_13: 9781118739013
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Human Geography , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography ,

Description:... 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