The political ecology of disease as one new focus for medical geography

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 441-456

  Mayer, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RISK; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; RESEARCH APPROACH;

EID: 0030440494     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913259602000401     Document Type: Article

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