Health Geography

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-32

  Kearns, Robin ^a   Collins, Damian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

"economic wellbeing" and "community wellbeing"; "medical" and "health" geography; Critical geography concerns domination and resistance, oppressive relations and advocacy of social justice; Cultural and health geography and interest in emotions; Emergence and characteristics of field of geographical inquiry health geography; Emergence of health geography from medical geography field; Health geography diverse and distinctive sub discipline; Institutional spaces contexts for inquiry; Linking diverse theoretical perspectives currently used in health geography; Placing theory and locating criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863354346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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