Health, place and society / Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, Richard Mitchell ; preface by Peter Haggett.

By:

Shaw, Mary, 1968- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Harlow, England : New York : Prentice Hall, 2002Description: x, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0130164550 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

614.42 SHA 23 013014

LOC classification:

RA792 .S49 2002

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction Ch. 2. Health, place and society: an historical perspective Ch. 3. Mapping and measuring Ch. 4. The social and spatial patterning of health Ch. 5. Health inequalities: composition or context? Ch. 6. Health and social/spatial mobility Ch. 7. Putting research into context: from cholera to good health for all.

Summary: This text focuses on the empirical, outlining the main research questions in medical geography, addressing how these can be investigated and then reviewing what is known about the issue. The authors explore traditional issues of medical geography, but also examine key issues in medical sociology--Publisher's blurb.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	614.42 SHA 013014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. Health, place and society: an historical perspective
Ch. 3. Mapping and measuring
Ch. 4. The social and spatial patterning of health
Ch. 5. Health inequalities: composition or context?
Ch. 6. Health and social/spatial mobility
Ch. 7. Putting research into context: from cholera to good health for all.

This text focuses on the empirical, outlining the main research questions in medical geography, addressing how these can be investigated and then reviewing what is known about the issue. The authors explore traditional issues of medical geography, but also examine key issues in medical sociology--Publisher's blurb.

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