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Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction
Contributor(s): Brown, Tim (Author), Andrews, Gavin J. (Author), Cummins, Steven (Author)
ISBN: 1118739035     ISBN-13: 9781118739037
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $93.81  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Medical | Epidemiology
Dewey: 614.42
LCCN: 2016057491
Series: Critical Introductions to Geography
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (1.35 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field's past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.

  • Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world
  • Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography
  • Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers
  • 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
  • Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study