Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction
| By: | Tim Brown; Gavin J. Andrews; Steven Cummins; Beth Greenhough; Daniel Lewis; Andrew Power |
| Publisher: | Wiley Global Research (STMS) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781118739020 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781118739013 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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