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Medical Geography, Second Edition by John W. Florin, Wilbert M. Gesler, Robert J. Earickson and Melinda S. Meade (2000, Hardcover)

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PublisherGuilford Publications

ISBN-101572305584

ISBN-139781572305588

eBay Product ID (ePID)1611863

Product Key Features

Number of Pages501 Pages

Publication NameMedical Geography, Second Edition

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPathology, Public Health, Human Geography

Publication Year2000

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical

AuthorJohn W. Florin, Wilbert M. Gesler, Robert J. Earickson, Melinda S. Meade

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight28.9 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-037658

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"This is an improved second edition of a text that has become required reading in most upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses on medical geography. Coverage of various subdisciplines has been enhanced with topical examples and discussions of the new analytical techniques that have come to the fore in the last decade, such as the impact of GIS. The reader is shown the interaction between various geographic systems--including physical, cultural, and political surfaces--and different disease surfaces, via a series of case studies. The sections on spatial analysis and visualization are particularly interesting, as these are at the root of the current research dialogue between medical geography and public health. This text serves as an excellent teaching tool for a first class on medical geography and as a general resource for anyone interested in these issues."--Andrew Curtis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University "In the best tradition of geography, this text is truly an interdisciplinary endeavor. It draws effectively on many different bodies of literature to construct a more holistic understanding of the geography of human health. True to the strengths and internationally recognized expertise of the authors, the book admirably spans the twin traditions of disease ecology and the geography of health services research. It also reaches out to include such new issues and areas of debate as pollution, global warming, poverty, and other late-modern determinants of health. Many helpful illustrations and case study vignettes enhance the text's prospects as an educational tool, and the inclusion of several 'methodological' chapters is also laudable. Each of these chapters will serve as an excellent introduction and springboard for discussion as part of a senior undergraduate or graduate-level course in medical geography. The volume will also be of interest to non-geographers who seek a deeper understanding of the complex social and natural ecology of human health."--Blake Poland, PhD., Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada "This new edition is encyclopedic in scope, yet readable and instructive at many levels. The authors have successfully tackled the difficult task of integrating and updating the best of medical geography with a range of health-related fields. The chapter on disease diffusion in space exemplifies the best of spatial and social analysis. Replete with useful examples, this text offers itself as an indispensable compendium for students of medical geography, epidemiology, the ecology of disease, and more. It should be on the shelf of every medical library and social medicine department. A commendable revision to a well-established medical geography primer."--Vincent E. Gil, PhD, FAACS, Medical Anthropologist/HIV Epidemiologist, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vanguard University of Southern California "Meade and Earickson each have been engaged in medical geographic research for more than three decades. Their collective wisdom encompasses just about everything written on this broad range of subjects. Not only do they have a thorough knowledge of the discipline, but they are able to express it in ways that will make the subject interesting for undergraduate students in geography, other social sciences, and such preprofessional fields as urban studies and public health. I plan on keeping my copy on the shelf right next to my desk, because I expect to refer to this book quite frequently."--Michael Greenberg, PhD, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, "This is an improved second edition of a text that has become required reading in most upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses on medical geography. Coverage of various subdisciplines has been enhanced with topical examples and discussions of the new analytical techniques that have come to the fore in the last decade, such as the impact of GIS. The reader is shown the interaction between various geographic systems--including physical, cultural, and political surfaces--and different disease surfaces, via a series of case studies. The sections on spatial analysis and visualization are particularly interesting, as these are at the root of the current research dialogue between medical geography and public health. This text serves as an excellent teaching tool for a first class on medical geography and as a general resource for anyone interested in these issues." --Andrew Curtis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University "In the best tradition of geography, this text is truly an interdisciplinary endeavor. It draws effectively on many different bodies of literature to construct a more holistic understanding of the geography of human health. True to the strengths and internationally recognized expertise of the authors, the book admirably spans the twin traditions of disease ecology and the geography of health services research. It also reaches out to include such new issues and areas of debate as pollution, global warming, poverty, and other late-modern determinants of health. Many helpful illustrations and case study vignettes enhance the text's prospects as an educational tool, and the inclusion of several 'methodological' chapters is also laudable. Each of these chapters will serve as an excellent introduction and springboard for discussion as part of a senior undergraduate or graduate-level course in medical geography. The volume will also be of interest to non-geographers who seek a deeper understanding of the complex social and natural ecology of human health." --Blake Poland, PhD., Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada "This new edition is encyclopedic in scope, yet readable and instructive at many levels. The authors have successfully tackled the difficult task of integrating and updating the best of medical geography with a range of health-related fields. The chapter on disease diffusion in space exemplifies the best of spatial and social analysis. Replete with useful examples, this text offers itself as an indispensable compendium for students of medical geography, epidemiology, the ecology of disease, and more. It should be on the shelf of every medical library and social medicine department. A commendable revision to a well-established medical geography primer." --Vincent E. Gil, PhD, FAACS, Medical Anthropologist/HIV Epidemiologist, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vanguard University of Southern California "Meade and Earickson each have been engaged in medical geographic research for more than three decades. Their collective wisdom encompasses just about everything written on this broad range of subjects. Not only do they have a thorough knowledge of the discipline, but they are able to express it in ways that will make the subject interesting for undergraduate students in geography, other social sciences, and such preprofessional fields as urban studies and public health. I plan on keeping my copy on the shelf right next to my desk, because I expect to refer to this book quite frequently." --Michael Greenberg, PhD, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, "Medical Geographywas a landmark work by Meade, Florin, and Gesler when it was first published in 1988, and its updating by Meade and Earickson is both timely and essential. This edition retains the integrity of the original volume while injecting new and updated material. Two new chapters are included on research methodology and data analysis, including epidemiologic methods and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A medical geography text that does not address such issues today would be scorned as superficial by epidemiologists. Conversely, almost all epidemiology texts are considered insufficient by medical geographers as they lack a spatial perspective and discussion about the ecology of disease. This text is important in that it makes a step towards bridging the gap between the disciplines and provides a solid text for advancing the field. Designed as an integrated text for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students with a geography background, the volume utilizes a holistic perspective and international examples....Meade and Earickson have provided the discipline with a solid and updated text that will serve a one semester course in medical geography well. Instructors will find this book easy to use for developing a new course in medical geography as the topics flow in a logical manner. Researchers without a special perspective will find it a useful first exposure to the spatial analysis of health-related data. Those who are already trained in the field will want to have the text on their shelves as a proud trophy that medical geography lives."--Social Science & Medicine "The book thoroughly introduces its reader to the field....Major strengths of the book are its careful documentation of the authors' sources and its helpful lists of further readings....This is a book with important messages for many audiences: medical epidemiologists, medical sociologists, medical economists, and any politician interested in helping to solve--or better, prevent--the problems associated with disease."--Science Books and Films

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal614.4/2

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of Content1. Questions of Medical Geography 2. The Human Ecology of Disease 3. Landscape Epidemiology 4. Developmental Change and Human Health 5. The Biometeorology of Health Status 6. The Pollution Syndrome 7. Geographies of Disease in Economically Developed Areas 8. Disease Diffusion in Space 9. Health Care Delivery Systems Worldwide 10. Distribution of Health Care Resources 11. Accessibility, Utilization, and Health Services Planning 12. Data, Measures, and Methodologies 13. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization Concluding Words

SynopsisThis essential text surveys the perspectives, methodologies, and theories that geographers use to address the subject of human health and disease. Wide ranging and international in scope, the volume synthesizes knowledge from across the social, physical, and biological sciences. Coverage includes the cultural ecology of disease; landscape epidemiology; developmental change and human health; biometeorology; disease ecology and spatial analysis in developed countries; spatial interaction in disease diffusion; health care resources, delivery systems, and planning; and research methodologies and data-analytic techniques. Throughout, clearly presented vignettes examine special issues and demonstrate the use of advanced statistical tools. The text is richly illustrated with tables, figures, and maps, including a four-page color insert.., This text presents an overview of medical geography with an emphasis on understanding disease ecology - the origin and transmission of disease. Updated, this edition has new chapters on data, data analysis and research design. It also includes more material on: women's health issues; health issues deriving from global change; illustrations of the use of GIS; challenges for health care in the USA; current research on AIDS; and health care in post-Soviet eastern Europe., In Her Own Image examines the lives and works of ten pioneering female artists over the last century whose self-representational art opened up new vistas on the female experience. Each of the artistse"Kthe Kollwitz, Claude Cahun, Charlotte Salomon, Frida Kahlo, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Ana Mendieta, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, and Orlane"used her art to overcome personal obstacles and traumas, so her work is not merely in dramatic dialogue with her social world but also her personal history. Danielle Knafo extends the discourse between feminism and art history, while revealing core psychological sensibilities involved in womene(tm)s self-representatione"for example, the need for mirroring, the use of mask and masquerade, the drive for reparation, the presence of the uncanny, and the complex and controversial concept of female narcissism. The psychoanalytic thread running throughout this book allows for the better telling of each artiste(tm)s personal storye"fascinating, poignant, tragic, and inspiringe"so that the reader enters the life of the artist and identifies with her personal, relational, political, aesthetic, and spiritual struggle.The authore(tm)s meticulous scholarship is informed by decades of clinical experience. Though she analyzes the personalities of these women, she never pathologizes them. Her personal interviews with several of the artists, their family members, and romantic partners, bring a fresh and intimate perspective to their narratives. The book describes both conscious and unconscious processes at work in the most psychological of all art forms. The core of female self-representational art is the artiste(tm)s body, but the art itself represents the embodied experience of the artiste"her family, sexuality, relationships, childhood experiences, personal traumas and attempts at mastery, the way her culture shaped her, and her response to its oppressione"all the relational elements of her particular universe. Knafo reveals the artist and her work in depth because each side is described and characterized in relation to the other. The personal psychology informs the art and the art her personal psychology, neither holding sway over the other. Adeptly weaving both together in a nuanced layering of historical, cultural, and aesthetic meaning, Knafo also helps readers understand their own complex and even uneasy response to the art of these women. She renders the artists such that they speak to every woman, regardless of her background, in an intensely personal voice, saying something new about the female experience and its inspiring power. In Her Own Image stands as the most comprehensive and in-depth treatment of this remarkable group of women artists whose primary subject is their own bodies and selves. Within these pages, the reader will be treated to a rare grasp of their stories and achievements.

LC Classification NumberRA792.M42 2000