GeoHumanities and Health / edited by Sarah Atkinson, Rachel Hunt.

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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Superior document:Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Language:English
Series:Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
Physical Description:1 online resource (292 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1-Geohumanities and health
  • Chapter 2-Electronic atmospheres: assemblage, form and technique in the onflow of 'techno with intelligence'
  • Chapter 3-Beyond therapy: exploring the potential of dance to improve social inclusion for people with dementia
  • Chapter 4-Bodies at the crossroads between immigration and health
  • Chapter 5-'Dirty bodies, dirty minds' social hygiene campaigns, women activists and nurses in the early 20th century
  • Chapter 6-Sensing nature: unraveling metanarratives of blindness
  • Chapter 7-Truth or dare: women, politics and the symphysiotomy scandal
  • Chapter 8-'Critical places'
  • Chapter 9-Placing patient voices in animal research
  • Chapter 10-Subjectivity, experience and evidence
  • Chapter 11-An inherent and necessary ethics of care
  • Chapter 12-Geographies of care: surviving homelessness in Melbourne
  • Chapter 13-Cartographies of health: from remote to intimate sensing
  • Chapter 14-The caring artist
  • Chapter 15-'Asylum pedagogy' and teaching experiments in Geohumanities
  • Chapter 16-Afterword. .