A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY A Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues relating to health and illness. Whilst thoroughly mapping out the territory covered by the sub-discipline and examining changes in focus and terminology, this book offers a discussion of the major themes from differing methodological and theoretical perspectives. Questions of class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are covered throughout the text and case studies within chapters draw upon scholarship from around the globe in order to illuminate key points. Organized to promote dialogue and encourage health and medical geographers to rethink sub-disciplinary boundaries, this Companion provides a unique account of the history of the field and its future potential and possibilities.

A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHYA Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues relating to health and illness.Whilst thoroughly mapping out the territory covered by the sub-discipline and examining changes in focus and terminology, this book offers a discussion of the major themes from differing methodological and theoretical perspectives. Questions of class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are covered throughout the text and case studies within chapters draw upon scholarship from around the globe in order to illuminate key points.Organized to promote dialogue and encourage health and medical geographers to rethink sub-disciplinary boundaries, this Companion provides a unique account of the history of the field and its future potential and possibilities.

List of Illustrations viiiList of Contributors xiAcknowledgements xxiii1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham MoonPart I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 132 Health Geography 15Robin Kearns and Damian Collins3 Medical Geography 33Jonathan D. Mayer4 Doubting Dualisms 55Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del CasinoJrPart II Disease 795 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold6 Mapping Disease 96Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and AndersSchærström8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133Myles Gould9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188Vincent J. Del Casino JrPart III Health and Wellbeing 20512 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207Allison M. Williams13 ". . . a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee":Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck14 Impairment and Disability 242Vera Chouinard15 Mental and Emotional Health 258Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson16 Landscapes of Despair 278Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301Susan Craddock and Tim BrownPart IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 32318 Health Geography and Public Health 325Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg19 Migration and Health 346Paul Boyle and Paul Norman20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian21 Neighborhoods and Health 399Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446Susan J. Elliott24 Healthy Behavior 460Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges WatsonPart V Health Care and Caring 49526 Providing Health Care 497Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland27 Accessing Health Care 521Thomas C. Ricketts28 Location-allocation Planning 540Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson29 The Changing Geography of Care 567Christine Milligan and Andrew Power30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): ProductionConsumption, Research 587Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy SegrottIndex 604