This book begins by exploring some of the circumstances surrounding the distinctive health inequities currently facing many developing countries, including malaria, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS. This is followed by a discussion of how matters of physical access and human reso…
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography,…
"Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography…
"Since publishing his bestselling The Blue Zones in 2008, longevity expert and National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has discovered a new Blue Zone and launched a major public health initiative to transform cities based on principles from this book. The Blue Zones, Second Ed…
Reveals the secrets of longevity of communities of long-lived people in: Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Okinawa, Japan; and Ikaria, Greece.
Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between …
Introducing geographical gerontology / Mark Skinner, Gavin Andrews, Malcolm Cutchin -- Space and place in geographical gerontology : theoretical traditions, formations of hope /Gavin Andrews, Malcolm Cutchin, Mark Skinner -- Health geographies of ageing / Janine Wiles -- Social …
Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes. This b…
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge.
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge.