InhaltsangabeList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Debates in Health and Medical Geography Part II: Disease Part III: Health and Wellbeing Part IV: Public Health and Health Inequalities Part V: Health Care and Caring Index

Tim Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group and has published numerous authored and co-authored book chapters and papers. Sara McLafferty is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include GIS and Public Health (with Ellen Cromley) (2002) and Geographies of Women's Health (with Isabel Dyck and Nancy Lewis) (2001). Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively in medical and health geography and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Health and Place.

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List of tables and illustrations Acknowledgements List of contributors 1. Introduction to health and medical geography (Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon). Part 1: Debates in health and medical geography 2. Health geography (Robin Kearns and Damian Collins). 3. Medical geography (Jonathan D. Mayer). 4. Doubting dualisms (Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.). Part 2: Disease: 5. Disease, ecology, and environment (Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold). 6. Mapping diseases (Stephane Rican and Gerard Salem). 7. Infectious disease diffusion (Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and Anders Schærström). 8. Modelling chronic disease (Myles Gould). 9. Emerging and re-emerging diseases (Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root). 10. Situating politics in health and medical geography (Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan). 11. Living with and experiencing disease (Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.). Part 3: Health and Wellbeing. 12. Therapeutic landscapes as health promoting places (Allison M. Williams). 13. "...a penis is not needed in order to pee": sex and gender in health geography (Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck). 14. Impairment and disability (Vera Chouinard). 15. Mental and emotional health (Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr). 16. Landscapes of despair (Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans). 17. Representing the un/healthy body (Susan Craddock and Tim Brown). Part 4: Public Health and Health Inequalities. 18. Health geography and public health (Sarah Curtis, Mylene Riva, and Mark Rosenberg). 19. Migration and health (Paul Boyle and Paul Norman). 20. Social perspectives on health inequalities (S V Subramanian and Vani S. Kulkarni). 21. Neighbourhoods and health (Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre). 22. An Environmental Health Geography of risk (Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis). 23. Environment, perception, and resistance (Susan J. Elliot). 24. Healthy behaviour (Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper). 25. Governing unhealthy populations (Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson). Part 5: Health care and caring. 26. Providing health care (Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland). 27. Accessing health care (Thomas C. Ricketts). 28. Location-allocation planning (Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson). 29. The changing geography of care (Christine Milligan and Andrew Power). 30. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): production, consumption, research (Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott). Index

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