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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 careA 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.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Medicine Medicine: general issues Public health & preventive medicine

• Pełny tytuł: Companion to Health and Medical Geography
• Autor: Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 640
• EAN: 9781405170031
• ISBN: 1405170034
• ID: 01419019
• Wydawca: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Waga: 1260 g
• Wymiary: 255 × 187 × 38 mm
• Data wydania: 27. November 2009

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