A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Book Details
Author(s)
Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405170034
ISBN-13
9781405170031
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Sales Rank
#3,354,345
Category
Science
Marketplace
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Description
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 care
