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Social geography has been one of the most important growth areas
within the field of geography in recent decades. It has brought
within geographical analysis a wide range of new topics, such as
ethnic segregation, crime and environment and inner city problems.
First published in 1986, this edited collection surveys the field
of social geography. Using key international case studies from
across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia,
authors discuss the different trends, leading figures and issues of
concern in social geography throughout the world. This is a
comprehensive and accessible study that will be of particular
interest to students of social and human geography, urban and
environmental planning.
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.
Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has
come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions
are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic
change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions
and the social geographical challenges of the human
health-environments linkages. Offering the first comprehensive and
cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field,
this book focuses on how humans theorize their relationships to the
environment with respect to health and how these ideas are mediated
through an evaluation of risk and hazards. Most work on risk has
focused primarily on environmental problems. This book extends and
synthesizes these works for the field of human health, treating
social, economic, cultural and political context as vital. Bringing
disparate literatures from across several disciplines together with
their own applied research and experience, John Eyles and Jamie
Baxter deal with scientific uncertainty in the everyday issues
raised and question how social theories and models of the way the
world works can contribute to understanding these uncertainties.
This book is essential reading for those studying and researching
in the fields of health geography and environmental studies as well
as environmental sociology, social and applied anthropology,
environmental psychology and environmental politics.
A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes
'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological,
social and environmental processes in relation to physical
place(s). Sense of place has been examined, particularly in human
geography, in terms of both the character intrinsic to a place as a
localized, bounded and material entity, and the sentiments of
attachment/detachment that humans experience and express in
relation to specific places. Scholars in a wide range of
disciplines are increasingly exploring the relationship between
place and health, and recently, the field of public health has been
encouraged to recognize sense of place as a potential contributing
factor to well-being. It is evident that over the last few decades,
sense of place has developed into a versatile construct. This
important book brings together work related to sense of place and
health, broadly defined, from the perspective of a variety of
fields and disciplines. It will give the reader an understanding of
both the range of applications of this construct within approaches
to human health as well as the breadth of research methodologies
employed in its investigation.
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.
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.
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.
Social geography has been one of the most important growth areas
within the field of geography in recent decades. It has brought
within geographical analysis a wide range of new topics, such as
ethnic segregation, crime and environment and inner city problems.
First published in 1986, this edited collection surveys the field
of social geography. Using key international case studies from
across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia,
authors discuss the different trends, leading figures and issues of
concern in social geography throughout the world. This is a
comprehensive and accessible study that will be of particular
interest to students of social and human geography, urban and
environmental planning.
A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes
'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological,
social and environmental processes in relation to physical
place(s). Sense of place has been examined, particularly in human
geography, in terms of both the character intrinsic to a place as a
localized, bounded and material entity, and the sentiments of
attachment/detachment that humans experience and express in
relation to specific places. Scholars in a wide range of
disciplines are increasingly exploring the relationship between
place and health, and recently, the field of public health has been
encouraged to recognize sense of place as a potential contributing
factor to well-being. It is evident that over the last few decades,
sense of place has developed into a versatile construct. This
important book brings together work related to sense of place and
health, broadly defined, from the perspective of a variety of
fields and disciplines. It will give the reader an understanding of
both the range of applications of this construct within approaches
to human health as well as the breadth of research methodologies
employed in its investigation.
Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has
come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions
are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic
change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions
and the social geographical challenges of the human
health-environments linkages. Offering the first comprehensive and
cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field,
this book focuses on how humans theorize their relationships to the
environment with respect to health and how these ideas are mediated
through an evaluation of risk and hazards. Most work on risk has
focused primarily on environmental problems. This book extends and
synthesizes these works for the field of human health, treating
social, economic, cultural and political context as vital. Bringing
disparate literatures from across several disciplines together with
their own applied research and experience, John Eyles and Jamie
Baxter deal with scientific uncertainty in the everyday issues
raised and question how social theories and models of the way the
world works can contribute to understanding these uncertainties.
This book is essential reading for those studying and researching
in the fields of health geography and environmental studies as well
as environmental sociology, social and applied anthropology,
environmental psychology and environmental politics.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human
health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They
explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's
ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are
dependent on the delicate global bionetwork. Their timely case
studies describe the cultural adaptations of indigenous populations
to their changing environments, evaluating their technological and
global political-economic processes. The authors analyze local and
global public health strategies, examine the association between
globalization and demographies, and offer creative solutions for
future health policies. This book will be a valuable resource for
professionals in international health, medical anthropology,
sociology and geography, environmental studies, and globalization
studies.
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