GeoHumanities and Health

Sarah Atkinson, Rachel Hunt

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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 seeks to foreground the richness of work entangling medicine and health with the concerns of geography and of the Humanities. This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers in the Geographies of health and medicine, social sciences in GeoHumanities, and health humanities, and students in programs focusing on the humanities and health.

In the book's first section, Bodies, the authors explore the material, sensory and more than physical capacities of bodies in accounting for experiences of death, air raids, immigration, dance therapy, asthma and blindness. Section two, Voice, addresses the nature of evidence, HIV/AIDS policy, patient voices in animal research, homelessness, and constructions of truth. The final section, Practice, focuses on creative writing, as well as the pedagogic tools of teaching with the asylum, the creative practice of nuclear emergency planning zones, arts-based care for the elderly, and cartographic practices within health research.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGeoHumanities and Health
EditorsSarah Atkinson, Rachel Hunt
PublisherSpringer
Chapter1
Pages1-19
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-21406-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-21405-0
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Publication series

NameGlobal Perspectives on Health Geography
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2522-8005

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