| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 283 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Global perspectives on health geography, 2522-8013 |
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Global perspectives on health geography.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- List of boxes -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. GeoHumanities and health / Rachel Hunt and Sarah Atkinson -- Part I. Bodies. 2. Sensing health and wellbeing through oral histories: the 'tip and run' air attacks on a British coastal town 1939-1944 / Gavin J. Andrews and Viv Wilson -- 3. Bodies at the crossroads between immigration and health / Anne-Cécile Hoyez, Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard, and François Lepage -- 4. Beyond therapy: exploring the potential of sharing dance to improve social inclusion for people living with dementia / Rachel Herron, Mark Skinner, Pia Kontos, Verena Menec, and Rachel Bar -- 5. Critical places and emerging health matters: body, risk and spatial obstacles / Kristofer Hansson -- 6. Sensing nature: unravelling metanarratives of nature and blindness / Sarah Bell -- Part II. Voices. 7. Subjectivity, experience and evidence: death like milk on the doorstep / Hannah Bradby -- 8. Borders of blame: histories and geographies of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, 1980-1995 / Carla Tsampiras -- 9. Which patient takes centre stage? Placing patient voices in animal research / Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, and Bentley Crudgington -- 10. Surviving homelessness in Melbourne: the niching of care / Cameron Duff -- 11. Truth or dare: women, politics, and the symphysiotomy scandal / Oonagh Walsh -- Part III. Practice. 12. GARTNAVEL: an experiment in teaching 'asylum week' / Cheryl McGeachan and Hester Parr -- 13. Zones of dissonance and deceit: nuclear emergency planning zones / Neil Overy -- 14. Multiplicity and encounters of cultures of care in advanced ageing / Michael Koon Boon Tan and Sarah Atkinson -- 15. Cartographies of health: from remote to intimate sensing / Ronan Foley -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and recently emergent health-related challenges. In three main sections, this volume seeks to foreground the richness of work entangling medicine and health with the concerns of geography and of the Humanities. This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers in the Geographies of health and medicine, social sciences in GeoHumanities, and health humanities, and students in programs focusing on the humanities and health. In the book's first section, Bodies, the authors explore the material, sensory and more than physical capacities of bodies in accounting for experiences of death, air raids, immigration, dance therapy, asthma and blindness. Section two, Voice, addresses the nature of evidence, HIV/AIDS policy, patient voices in animal research, homelessness, and constructions of truth. The final section, Practice, focuses on creative writing, as well as the pedagogic tools of teaching with the asylum, the creative practice of nuclear emergency planning zones, arts-based care for the elderly, and cartographic practices within health research. "This engaging collection offers insightful encounters with the geographical imagination that bring a depth of human experience to medical and health concerns. It adds critical weight to the 'geohumanities turn' by not only providing an important foundational collection but also by suggesting future opportunities at the permeable edges of the humanities, health and place."--Robin Kearns, University of Auckland "Live issues, matters of life and death, lively stories and deathly silences: these are the difficult grounds tracked and troubled by this wonderful new collection, a pioneering effort to explore the meeting of GeoHumanities with medical/health humanities. Straddling disciplines and reaching beyond the academy, contributions to this collection - poetic, evocative, experiential, experimental, scholarly and critical - tellingly illuminate multiple new possibilities for GeoHumanistic medical-health inquiry and care-full, practical interventions."--Christopher Philo, University of Glasgow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record; online resource viewed March 19, 2021 |
| Subject |
Human geography.
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Medicine and the humanities.
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Environmental health.
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Human body.
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Humanities.
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Geography, Medical
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Humanities
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Social Determinants of Health
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Human Migration
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Interdisciplinary Communication
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humanities.
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Humanities
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Environmental health
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Human body
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Human geography
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Medicine and the humanities
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Atkinson, Sarah J., editor
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Hunt, Rachel (Of University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030214067 |
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3030214060 |
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