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Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015), and associate editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. His books include Aging and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice (2005), Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place (2009), and Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012).
Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has published widely across the medical and social sciences on socio-environmental inequalities in health and health behaviour and the evaluation of health and social policies to reduce them.
Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate, 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society, bioethics, and the history of medical research.
Daniel Lewis is Research Fellow in Spatial Analysis at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a quantitative Health Geographer who is interested in the socio-spatial dimensions of health, welfare, and inequality.
Andrew Power is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. His research interests focus on the geographies of caregiving and disability, and the post-asylum geographies of mental health. He has published widely in leading journals as well as two recent books, Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Ashgate, 2010) and Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Boxes ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xii
1 Introduction 1Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Dan Lewis, Andrew Power
Part I Body, Health and Disease 21
2 The Body in Health Geography 23Tim Brown
3 Health and Place 39Gavin J. Andrews
Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 57
4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 59Gavin J. Andrews
5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 75Gavin J. Andrews
6 Spaces of Care 95Andrew Power
7 Post-Asylum Geographies 114Andrew Power
Part III Producing Health 135
8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 137Steve Cummins
9 Capturing Complexity 156Dan Lewis
10 Interventions for Population Health 174Steve Cummins
Part IV Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 191
11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 193Beth Greenhough
12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 215Beth Greenhough
13 Health and Medical Tourism 234Beth Greenhough
14 Global Health Geographies 251Tim Brown
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