In this wide-ranging book, written for students and non-specialists, Gesler applies cultural geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in western and developing countries alike, the social sciences can inform the medical ...

Author: Wilbert M. Gesler

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105041095238

Category: Medical

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Arguing that medical systems must be seen in a social context, Gesler (geography, U. of North Carolina) applies the concepts of cultural geography to health care and shows that in both developed and developing countries alike the social sciences can inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

notion I wish to convey is that cultural geography offers a multivalent, interactive perspective on health care delivery. The foundation for chapter z, "Culture Systems," derives from systems theory, work on medical systems around the ...

Author: Wilbert M. Gesler

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

ISBN: 9780822974543

Category: Social Science

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In health care delivery and health care research, basic concepts of cultural behavior are ignored—at a high personal and financial cost—because both fields are dominated by technical solutions and quantitative analysis. They have little use for what is often regarded as irrelevant information. In this wide-ranging book, written for students and non-specialists, Gesler applies cultural geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in western and developing countries alike, the social sciences can inform the medical sciences nd make them more effective and less expensive.

As social geographers, we see spatial pattern and environmental association as important, but also see the importance of social, economic and political process. Human geography itself seems inexorably to be drawn towards even closer ...

Author: John Eyles

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317907275

Category: Social Science

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This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography. It sets the central problems of medical geography in a broad social context as well as in a spatial one and analyses changing conceptions of health and illness in detail. It also explores the pathological relationship between people and their environment and illustrates that social phenomena form spatial patterns which provide a good starting point for the examination of the relationship between medicine, health and society.

Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore the links between culture, place and ...

Author: Wilbert M. Gesler

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134655731

Category: Medical

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Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to assert the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to an expanding of horizons at the intersection of the discipline of geography and the multidisciplinary domain of health concerns.

Health / Sexuality / Geography Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. Introduction Sex acts , what sex itself entails in its many ... Yet , despite the parallel in theoretical developments in health and medical geography and in social and cultural ...

Author: Kath Browne

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 0754678520

Category: Social Science

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Drawing 'founding' figures of the field together with emerging authors, this innovative volume uses original material to provide a broad, interdisciplinary and international overview of the geographies of sexualities.

geography of health, focusing on the geographical dimensions of inequalities of health and health care.Her scholarship elucidates how, and why, varying geographical settings relate to human health inequalities.

Author: Tim Brown

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 1444314777

Category: Science

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

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 ...

Author: Tim Brown

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118739037

Category: Social Science

Page: 303

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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

An Essay in Welfare Geography John Eyles. Mechanic, D. (1978) Medical sociology, Free Press Middlemas, K. (1979) Politics in industrial society, Andre Deutsch Midgley, M. (1979) Beast and man, Methuen Mier, R. (1982) Enterprise zones, ...

Author: John Eyles

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317907244

Category: Social Science

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This book considers the social and geographical context in which the National Health Service (NHS) operated during the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that disease and health care systems are the product to a large degree of the wider social and cultural context. It explores the relationship between health, work, poverty, housing, class and culture. examines how resource allocation and social policies are determined by the wider social and cultural context. discusses how the health of the nation, broadly defined should best be managed. As relevant today as when it was originally published, comments on the nature of welfare geography, assesses the impact of integrated approaches on the policy process and points the way forward to geographies rather than a geography of the national health.

... R. W. ( 1976 ) ' Altitudinal Mobility and Disease Hazards for Ethiopian Populations ' , Economic Geography ... Heinemann Ryan , M. ( 1978 ) The Organization of Medical Care in the Soviet Union , Basil Blackwell and Martin Robertson ...

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781317907374

Category: Science

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Re-issuing books originally published between 1969 and 1990 this set of 15 volumes gives a 20 year perspective on the development of the discipline of social geography. The books emphasize the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic and political organization and ethical imperatives. The volumes are authored by well-known international geographers and discuss the philosophy and sociology of geography as well as key themes such as the geography of health, crime, space. They also examine the cross-over of geography with other disciplines, such as literature and history.

further through a quantum shift toward a cultural/humanistic standpoint. In this respect he linked the geography of health into the developments that were at the time beginning to engulf cultural geography. He saw a cultural and ...

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Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9780081022962

Category: Social Science

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context