Brown, Tim
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
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
Keywords: Illness, medicine, health, healthcare, disease, class, ethnicity, gender, wellbeing, disability, disease ecology, Sociology of Health & Illness, Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, Sociology of Health & Illness, Medical Statistics & Epidemiology
- Author(s)
- Brown, Tim
- McLafferty, Sara
- Moon, Graham
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
- Page amount
- 640 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444314779
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405170031