Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography)

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