Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives / Edition 1

by Sarah Curtis

Overview

This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. It relates theoretical arguments to specific landscapes and will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in urban areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761968238
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/31/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

Introducing Geographical Perspectives on Health and Inequality
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL LANDSCAPES OF HEALTH
Therapeutic Landscapes
Wellness, Healing Places and Complementary Therapies
Landscapes of Power
Surveillance, Exclusion and Social Control
Landscapes of Poverty and Wealth
Landscapes of Consumption
Care and Commodification
Ecological Landscapes
Populations, Air, Water and Ground
PART TWO: INTEGRATING LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVES: ASPECTS OF HEALTH IN URBAN SETTINGS
The Geography of Mental Health in Cities
Geography of an Infectious Disease
The Example of Tuberculosis
Health Geography in Strategies to Improve Public Health

Editorial Reviews

‘At last! A tour de force on cities and health by someone who knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text, preoccupied as much with health and well-being as with death, disease and despair. It is concerned with who wins and who loses from the social and spatial patterning of risk… Combining breadth of coverage with depth of analysis, Health and Inequality provides an intricate map of harmful spaces and healing places, together with some guidelines on how to get from one to the other' - Professor Susan Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh

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