Culture/Place/Health

Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research of the decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geogrphers and other social scientist to explore the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to be the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to an expanding of horizons at the intersection of hte discipline of geography and the multi-disciplinary domain of health concerns.

List of figures

viii

List of boxes

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(10)

Introduction

1

(1)

Culture

2

(2)

Place

4

(2)

Health

6

(2)

Narrating change

8

(3)

Culture matters to health

11

(25)

Introduction

11

(1)

What is culture?

12

(1)

A brief history of traditional cultural geography

13

(4)

The emergence of a new cultural geography

17

(3)

Structuralism and humanism

20

(5)

Postmodernism

25

(5)

Cultures of health

30

(2)

Cultural geographies of health

32

(2)

Culture matters!

34

(1)

Further reading

35

(1)

Studying culture/placing ourselves

36

(14)

Introduction

36

(1)

Surveying the field

37

(2)

The place of observation

39

(1)

Observation through participating/participating while observing

40

(2)

Embodied power, knowledge and observation

42

(4)

Interpreting texts

46

(1)

Conclusion

47

(2)

Further reading

49

(1)

Structure and agency

50

(22)

Introduction

50

(1)

The structural approach

50

(7)

Unhealthy societies

57

(2)

The humanist approach

59

(3)

Deprived people

62

(1)

Integrating structure and agency

63

(4)

Treating the mad

67

(3)

Conclusions

70

(1)

Further reading

71

(1)

Language/metaphor/health

72

(24)

Introduction

72

(1)

Words, words, words

73

(4)

Metaphors and meaning

77

(4)

Stories of illness

81

(2)

Knowledge, power, resistance

83

(3)

Medical encounters

86

(1)

And what about place?

87

(3)

Health and the media

90

(1)

Medical soaps

91

(1)

Imaginative literature

92

(2)

Listening to language

94

(1)

Further reading

95

(1)

Cultural difference in health and place

96

(24)

Introduction

96

(4)

A woman's place in health care

100

(5)

Ethnic differences in health experience

105

(4)

Geographies of sexual orientation

109

(3)

People with disabilities

112

(6)

Conclusion

118

(1)

Further reading

118

(2)

Landscapes of healing

120

(19)

Introduction

120

(1)

Nature as healer

121

(4)

Selling places that heal

125

(4)

Symbolic healing landscapes

129

(3)

Therapeutic landscapes

132

(5)

Landscape/place/healing

137

(1)

Further reading

138

(1)

Consumption, place and health

139

(15)

Introduction

139

(1)

The character of consumerism

140

(1)

The changing face of consumption landscapes

141

(2)

Symbolism, landscape and health care

143

(4)

Consumerist ideology in the landscape

147

(2)

Finding space for non-consumers

149

(1)

Conclusion

150

(3)

Further reading

153

(1)

Conclusion

154

(6)

Introduction

154

(1)

Theoretical diversity

154

(2)

Key questions

156

(2)

The disciplinary/interdisciplinary tension

158

(1)

What makes a health geographer today?

159

(1)

Bibliography

160

(20)

Index

180

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