Tim Brown & Sara McLafferty 
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography 

A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues relating to health and illness.

Whilst thoroughly mapping out the territory covered by the sub-discipline and examining changes in focus and terminology, this book offers a discussion of the major themes from differing methodological and theoretical perspectives. Questions of class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are covered throughout the text and case studies within chapters draw upon scholarship from around the globe in order to illuminate key points.

Organized to promote dialogue and encourage health and medical geographers to rethink sub-disciplinary boundaries, this Companion provides a unique account of the history of the field and its future potential and possibilities.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations viii

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xxiii

1 Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 1

Tim Brown, Sara Mc Lafferty, and Graham Moon

Part I Debates in Health and Medical Geography 13

2 Health Geography 15

Robin Kearns and Damian Collins

3 Medical Geography 33

Jonathan D. Mayer

4 Doubting Dualisms 55

Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns, and Vincent J. Del Casino
Jr

Part II Disease 79

5 Disease, Ecology, and Environment 81

Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold

6 Mapping Disease 96

Stéphane Rican and Gérard Salem

7 Infectious Disease Diffusion 111

Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle, and Anders
Schærström

8 Modeling Chronic Disease 133

Myles Gould

9 Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases 154

Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root

10 Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography 173

Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan

11 Living With and Experiencing Disease 188

Vincent J. Del Casino Jr

Part III Health and Wellbeing 205

12 Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places 207

Allison M. Williams

13 ‘. . . a Penis Is Not Needed in Order to Pee’:
Sex and Gender in Health Geography 224

Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck

14 Impairment and Disability 242

Vera Chouinard

15 Mental and Emotional Health 258

Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson

16 Landscapes of Despair 278

Geoffrey De Verteuil and Josh Evans

17 Representing the Un/healthy Body 301

Susan Craddock and Tim Brown

Part IV Public Health and Health Inequalities 323

18 Health Geography and Public Health 325

Sarah Curtis, Mylène Riva, and Mark Rosenberg

19 Migration and Health 346

Paul Boyle and Paul Norman

20 Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities 375

Vani S. Kulkarni and S. V. Subramanian

21 Neighborhoods and Health 399

Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre

22 An Environmental Health Geography of Risk 418

Michael Jerrett with Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis

23 Environment, Perception, and Resistance 446

Susan J. Elliott

24 Healthy Behavior 460

Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper

25 Governing Un/healthy Populations 477

Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson

Part V Health Care and Caring 495

26 Providing Health Care 497

Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland

27 Accessing Health Care 521

Thomas C. Ricketts

28 Location-allocation Planning 540

Frank Tanser, Peter Gething, and Peter Atkinson

29 The Changing Geography of Care 567

Christine Milligan and Andrew Power

30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production,
Consumption, Research 587

Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams, and Jeremy Segrott

Index 604

About the author

THE EDITORS

Tim Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group and has published numerous authored and co-authored book chapters and papers.

Sara Mc Lafferty is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include GIS and Public Health (with Ellen Cromley) (2002) and Geographies of Women’s Health (with Isabel Dyck and Nancy Lewis) (2001).

Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively in medical and health geography and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Health and Place.