Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography
2 total works
Geography of the National Health (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
by John Eyles
This book considers the social and geographical context in which the National Health Service (NHS) operated during the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that disease and health care systems are the product to a large degree of the wider social and cultural context. It
- explores the relationship between health, work, poverty, housing, class and culture.
- examines how resource allocation and social policies are determined by the wider social and cultural context.
- discusses how the health of the nation, broadly defined should best be managed.
As relevant today as when it was originally published, comments on the nature of welfare geography, assesses the impact of integrated approaches on the policy process and points the way forward to geographies rather than a geography of the national health.
The Social Geography of Medicine and Health (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
by John Eyles and Kevin Woods
This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography. It sets the central problems of medical geography in a broad social context as well as in a spatial one and analyses changing conceptions of health and illness in detail. It also explores the pathological relationship between people and their environment and illustrates that social phenomena form spatial patterns which provide a good starting point for the examination of the relationship between medicine, health and society.