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Author Eyles, John

Title Social geography medicine health
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography
Routledge library editions. Social and cultural geography.
Contents Cover; The Social Geography of Medicine and Health; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Perspectives on Health and Health Care; 2. Changing Conceptions of Health and Health Care in Urban Society; 3. Man, Disease and Environmental Associations: From Medical Geography to Health Inequalities; 4. Perspectives on the Location and Distribution of Health Services; 5. Practical Responses: The Effects of Constraints; 6. Societal Constraints and Systems of Health Care Provision
7. Directions for Social Geographical ResearchBibliography; Subject Index; Author Index
Summary 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 medici
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical geography.
Social medicine.
Topography, Medical
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medical geography
Social medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Woods, Kevin J
ISBN 9781317907275
1317907272
9781317907282
1317907280