Geohumanities and health

Geohumanities and health / Sarah Atkinson, Rachel Hunt, editors.

This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and recently emergent health-related challenges. In three main sections, this volume...

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Other Authors: Atkinson, Sarah J. (Editor), Hunt, Rachel (Of University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:Global perspectives on health geography.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Medicine and the humanities.
Environmental health.
Human body.
Humanities.
humanities.
Humanities
Environmental health
Human body
Human geography
Medicine and the humanities
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • List of boxes
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. GeoHumanities and health / Rachel Hunt and Sarah Atkinson
  • Part I. Bodies. 2. Sensing health and wellbeing through oral histories: the 'tip and run' air attacks on a British coastal town 1939-1944 / Gavin J. Andrews and Viv Wilson
  • 3. Bodies at the crossroads between immigration and health / Anne-Cécile Hoyez, Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard, and François Lepage
  • 4. Beyond therapy: exploring the potential of sharing dance to improve social inclusion for people living with dementia / Rachel Herron, Mark Skinner, Pia Kontos, Verena Menec, and Rachel Bar
  • 5. Critical places and emerging health matters: body, risk and spatial obstacles / Kristofer Hansson
  • 6. Sensing nature: unravelling metanarratives of nature and blindness / Sarah Bell
  • Part II. Voices. 7. Subjectivity, experience and evidence: death like milk on the doorstep / Hannah Bradby
  • 8. Borders of blame: histories and geographies of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, 1980-1995 / Carla Tsampiras
  • 9. Which patient takes centre stage? Placing patient voices in animal research / Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, and Bentley Crudgington
  • 10. Surviving homelessness in Melbourne: the niching of care / Cameron Duff
  • 11. Truth or dare: women, politics, and the symphysiotomy scandal / Oonagh Walsh
  • Part III. Practice. 12. GARTNAVEL: an experiment in teaching 'asylum week' / Cheryl McGeachan and Hester Parr
  • 13. Zones of dissonance and deceit: nuclear emergency planning zones / Neil Overy
  • 14. Multiplicity and encounters of cultures of care in advanced ageing / Michael Koon Boon Tan and Sarah Atkinson
  • 15. Cartographies of health: from remote to intimate sensing / Ronan Foley
  • Index.

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