A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

This <i>Companion</i> provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. <ul type=”disc”> <li>Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography</li> <li>Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors</li> <li>Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline</li> <li>Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material</li> <li>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</li> </ul>