Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 173-187

  Donovan, Courtney J ^a   Duncan, R Ian ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic politics health policy coverage, environmental justice and (NIMBYism); Characterization of medical geography outside of politics; Constitutive politics and formative aspects of politics and normative practices; Distributive politics and related patterns of inequality; Health geography perspective in political ecology approach; Political ecology understanding health and health care process situations; Political interests of medical and health geography; Politics and political research in medical and health geography; Repositioning politics of health and medical geography; Situating politics in health and medical geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889298435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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