Health Geographies

<i>Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction</i> 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.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world</li> <li>Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography</li> <li>Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers</li> <li>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</li> <li>Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study</li> </ul>