Health and Inequality

Introducing Geographical Perspectives on Health and Inequality PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL LANDSCAPES OF HEALTH Therapeutic Landscapes Wellness, Healing Places and Complementary Therapies Landscapes of Power Surveillance, Exclusion and Social Control Landscapes of Poverty and Wealth Landscapes of Consumption Care and Commodification Ecological Landscapes Populations, Air, Water and Ground PART TWO: INTEGRATING LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVES: ASPECTS OF HEALTH IN URBAN SETTINGS The Geography of Mental Health in Cities Geography of an Infectious Disease The Example of Tuberculosis Health Geography in Strategies to Improve Public Health

`At last! A tour de force on cities and health by someone who knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text, preoccupied as much with health and well-being as with death, disease and despair. It is concerned with who wins and who loses from the social and spatial patterning of risk... Combining breadth of coverage with depth of analysis, Health and Inequality provides an intricate map of harmful spaces and healing places, together with some guidelines on how to get from one to the other' - Professor Susan Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh