Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1 Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
Part I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 13
2 Health Geography 15 Robin Kearns and Damian Collins
3 Medical Geography 33 Jonathan D. Mayer
4 Doubting Dualisms 55 Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Part II Disease 79
5 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81 Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold
6 Mapping Disease 96 Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem
7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111 Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and Anders Schærström
8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133 Myles Gould
9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154 Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root
10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173 Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan
11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188 Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
Part III Health and Wellbeing 205
12 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207 Allison M. Williams
13 “. . . a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee”: Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224 Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck
14 Impairment and Disability 242 Vera Chouinard
15 Mental and Emotional Health 258 Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson
16 Landscapes of Despair 278 Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans
17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301 Susan Craddock and Tim Brown
Part IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 323
18 Health Geography and Public Health 325 Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg
19 Migration and Health 346 Paul Boyle and Paul Norman
20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375 Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian
21 Neighborhoods and Health 399 Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre
22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418 Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis
23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446 Susan J. Elliott
24 Healthy Behavior 460 Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper
25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477 Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson
Part V Health Care and Caring 495
26 Providing Health Care 497 Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland
27 Accessing Health Care 521 Thomas C. Ricketts
28 Location-allocation Planning 540 Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson
29 The Changing Geography of Care 567 Christine Milligan and Andrew Power
30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research 587 Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott
Index 604