Health Geographies (eBook)

A Critical Introduction

Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Daniel Lewis, Andrew Power (Autoren)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-73899-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (2005), Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (2009), and Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012).

Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has published widely across the medical and social sciences on socio-environmental inequalities in health and health behaviour and the evaluation of health and social policies to reduce them.

Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.

Daniel Lewis is Research Fellow in Spatial Analysis at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a quantitative Health Geographer who is interested in the socio-spatial dimensions of health, welfare, and inequality.

Andrew Power is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. His research interests focus on the geographies of caregiving and disability, and the post-asylum geographies of mental health. He has published widely in leading journals as well as two recent books, Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Ashgate, 2010) and Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
List of Figures 9
List of Tables 10
List of Boxes 11
Notes on Contributors 12
Foreword 14
Acknowledgements 15
Chapter 1 Introduction 17
Introduction 17
A Critical Introduction to Health Geography? 18
Applying a Critical Perspective to Our World 22
A ‘Road Map’ to Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction 29
References 32
Part I Body, Health and Disease 37
Chapter 2 The Body in Health Geography 39
Introduction 39
Disembodied Geographies 40
Representational Geographies: Pathologising Bodies and Spaces 42
From Representation and Governance to Materiality and Embodiment 46
Conclusion: More-than-human Bodies 51
Questions for Review 52
Suggested Reading 52
References 52
Chapter 3 Health and Place 55
Introduction 55
Medical Geography: Place as Location 56
Health Geography 58
Conclusion 67
Questions for Review 68
Suggested Reading 68
References 68
Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 73
Chapter 4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 75
Introduction 75
Wellbeing: Its Emergence and Development 75
Therapeutic Landscapes: Definitions and Beginnings 80
Conclusion 85
Questions for Review 85
Suggested Reading 85
References 86
Chapter 5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 91
Introduction 91
Locating Health Care 91
Reforming Health Care 93
Changing Places: Institutions and Neoliberal Thinking 95
Place and the Evidence-Based Agenda 101
Conclusion 103
Questions for Review 103
Suggested Reading 103
References 104
Chapter 6 Spaces of Care 111
Introduction 111
Care: Mapping the Boundaries of an Ideological Term 112
Tracing the Everyday Spaces of Care 118
Eroding Places of Care in a Post-welfare State 120
An End to Care? 124
Conclusion 125
Questions for Review 126
Suggested Reading 127
References 127
Chapter 7 Post-Asylum Geographies 130
Introduction 130
Asylum Geographies 131
A Failed Ideal and the Grassroots of Reform 138
Post-Asylum Geographies 140
Placing Contemporary Mental Health 144
Conclusion 146
Questions for Review 147
Suggested Reading 147
References 147
Part III Producing Health 151
Chapter 8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 153
Introduction 153
Placing the Geography of Health Inequalities 154
Thinking Critically about Neighbourhood and Contextual Effects on Health 165
Conclusion 166
Questions for Review 167
Suggested Reading 167
References 167
Chapter 9 Capturing Complexity 172
Introduction 172
Tensions in Ecological Health Research 173
Towards Realistic Complexity in Ecological Health Research 175
Implications of Complexity for Health Geography Research 185
Conclusion 186
Questions for Review 187
Suggested Reading 187
References 187
Chapter 10 Interventions for Population Health 190
Introduction 190
Improving Health or Reducing Inequalities? 191
Environmental Interventions and Population Health 193
‘Natural Experiments’: Generating Better Quality Evidence 198
Conclusion 202
Questions for Review 203
Suggested Reading 203
References 204
Part 4 Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 207
Chapter 11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 209
Introduction 209
What Causes Epidemic Disease? 210
Disease Ecology 212
Tackling Epidemics 215
Governing Epidemics: Biopolitics, Securitisation and Global Threat 221
Conclusion 227
Questions for Review 228
Suggested Reading 228
References 228
Chapter 12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 231
Introduction 231
Bioprospecting: Sourcing New Active Compounds 232
Clinical Trials 238
Constituting Pharmaceutical Markets 241
Addressing the ‘Global Drug Gap’ 245
Conclusion 246
Questions for Review 247
Suggested Reading 247
References 248
Chapter 13 Health and Medical Tourism 250
Introduction 250
Early Forms of Health and Medical Tourism 251
Defining Medical Tourism 253
Who are Medical Tourists? 254
Where do they Travel and in what Numbers? 258
What are the Impacts of Medical Tourism? 260
Medical Tourism and Health Geography 262
Conclusion 263
Questions for Review 264
Suggested Reading 264
References 264
Chapter 14 Global Health Geographies 267
Introduction 267
From International Dialogue to Overseas Intervention 268
Emerging Global Biopolitics 270
Bureaucratising Global Health 273
The Economisation of Global Health 278
Critical Geographies of Global Health 281
Conclusion 283
Questions for Review 283
Suggested Reading 283
References 284
Index 287
EULA 306

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Geographie • Geography • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Gesundheitswesen • Health & Social Care • Medizinische Geographie • Social & Cultural Geography • Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit • Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-73899-3 / 1118738993
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-73899-3 / 9781118738993