Geographies of Health Series: Geographies of Health Series
About the Book Series
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There is growing interest in the geographies of health and a continued interest in what has more traditionally been labeled medical geography. The traditional focus of โmedical geographyโ on areas such as disease ecology, health service provision and disease mapping (all of which continue to reflect a mainly quantitative approach to inquiry) has evolved to a focus on a broader, theoretically informed epistemology of health geographies in an expanded international reach. As a result, we now find this subdiscipline characterized by a strongly theoretically-informed research agenda, embracing a range of methods (quantitative; qualitative and the integration of the two) of inquiry concerned with questions of: risk; representation and meaning; inequality and power; culture and difference, among others. Health mapping and modeling, has simultaneously been strengthened by the technical advances made in multilevel modeling, advanced spatial analytic methods and GIS, while further engaging in questions related to health inequalities, population health and environmental degradation. This series publishes superior quality research monographs and edited collections representing contemporary applications in the field; this encompasses original research as well as advances in methods, techniques and theories. The Geographies of Health series will capture the interest of a broad body of scholars, within the social sciences, the health sciences and beyond.
Population Health Intervention Research: Geographical perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel W. Harrington, Sara McLafferty, Susan J. Elliott
September 30, 2020
Health geographers are well situated for undertaking population health intervention research (PHIR), and have an opportunity to be at the forefront of this emerging area of inquiry. However, in order to advance PHIR, the scientific community needs to be innovative with its methodologies, theories, ...
Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy E. Fenton, Jamie Baxter
September 30, 2020
Health geographers are increasingly turning to a diverse range of interpretative methodologies to explore the complexities of health, illness, space and place to gain more comprehensive understandings of well-being and broader social models of health and health care. Drawing upon postmodernism, ...
The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum: Recycling Concepts, Sites and Memories
1st Edition
By Graham Moon, Robin Kearns
September 30, 2020
The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and ...
Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
1st Edition
By Mark Welford
August 14, 2020
Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague...
Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ezekiel Kalipeni, Juliet Iwelunmor, Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint, Imelda K. Moise
August 14, 2020
The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (...
Non-Representational Theory & Health: The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing
1st Edition
By Gavin J. Andrews
June 30, 2020
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the first...
Geographies of Health and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Bezner Kerr, Isaac Luginaah
February 06, 2018
The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this ...
Spatial Analysis in Health Geography
1st Edition
By Pavlos Kanaroglou, Eric Delmelle
February 05, 2018
Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists, and for the management and administration ...
Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life
1st Edition
By Allison Williams, John Eyles
November 28, 2016
A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes 'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological, social and environmental processes in relation to physical place(s). Sense of place has been examined, particularly in human geography, in terms of both the character ...
Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin J. Andrews, Paul Kingsbury, Robin Kearns
November 25, 2016
Unearthing the messy and sprawling interrelationships of place, wellbeing, and popular music, this book explores musical soundscapes of health, ranging from activism to international charity, to therapeutic treatments and how wellbeing is sought and attained in contexts of music. Drawing on ...
Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews
November 15, 2016
Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together ...
Therapeutic Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Allison Williams
December 21, 2007
The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines. This is the first book published in several years, and provides an introduction to the concept and its ...