| The Social Geography of Medicine and Health (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) Contributor(s): Eyles, John (Author), Woods, Kevin J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138998109 ISBN-13: 9781138998100 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Risk Assessment - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 362.104 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |