Ashgate's Geographies of Health series
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Series Editors: Allison Williams, McMaster University, Canada
and Susan Elliott, McMaster University, Canada
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There is growing interest in the geographies of health and a
continued interest in what has more traditionally been labeled
medical geography. The traditional focus of ‘medical geography’ on
areas such as disease ecology, health service provision and disease
mapping (all of which continue to reflect a mainly quantitative
approach to inquiry) has evolved to a focus on a broader,
theoretically informed epistemology of health geographies in an
expanded international reach. As a result, we now find this
subdiscipline characterized by a strongly theoretically-informed
research agenda, embracing a range of methods (quantitative;
qualitative and the integration of the two) of inquiry concerned
with questions of: risk; representation and meaning; inequality and
power; culture and difference, among others. Health mapping and
modeling, has simultaneously been strengthened by the technical
advances made in multilevel modeling, advanced spatial analytic
methods and GIS, while further engaging in questions related to
health inequalities, population health and environmental
degradation.
This series publishes superior quality research monographs and
edited collections representing contemporary applications in the
field; this encompasses original research as well as advances in
methods, techniques and theories. The Geographies of
Health series will capture the interest of a broad body of
scholars, within the social sciences, the health sciences and
beyond.