Health Geographies

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

List of Figures vii List of Tables viii List of Boxes ix Notes on Contributors x Foreword xii Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction 1 Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Daniel Lewis, Andrew Power Part I Body, Health and Disease 21 2 The Body in Health Geography 23 Tim Brown 3 Health and Place 39 Gavin J. Andrews Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 57 4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 59 Gavin J. Andrews 5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 75 Gavin J. Andrews 6 Spaces of Care 95 Andrew Power 7 Post‐Asylum Geographies 114 Andrew Power Part III Producing Health 135 8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 137 Steven Cummins 9 Capturing Complexity 156 Daniel Lewis 10 Interventions for Population Health 174 Steven Cummins Part IV Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 191 11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 193 Beth Greenhough 12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 215 Beth Greenhough 13 Health and Medical Tourism 234 Beth Greenhough 14 Global Health Geographies 251 Tim Brown Index 271