Health Geographies

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<i>Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction</i> explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the fields past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.<br /><br /><ul><li>Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world</li><li>Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography</li><li>Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers</li><li>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</li><li>Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study</li></ul>

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<p><b> Tim Brown</b> is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of<i>A Companion to Health and Medical Geography</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and<i>Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals</i> (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of<i>The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).<p><b> Gavin J. Andrews</b> is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include<i>Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice</i> (2005),<i>Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place</i> (2009), and<i>Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine</i> (2012).<p><b> Steven Cummins</b> 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.<p><b> Beth Greenhough</b> is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of<i>Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals</i> (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.<p><b> Daniel Lewis</b> 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.<p><b> Andrew Power</b> 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,<i> Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving</i>(Ashgate, 2010) and<i>Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

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