Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction

About Andrew PowerBeth GreenhoughDaniel LewisGavin J. AndrewsSteven CumminsTim Brown

Tim Brown is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He is co-editor of A Companion to Health and Medical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) and Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate 2015) and associate editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health Illness Behavior and Society (Wiley-Blackwell 2014). Gavin J. Andrews is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Health Aging and Society at McMaster University Canada. His books include Aging and Place: Perspectives Policy Practice (2005) Primary Health Care: People Practice Place (2009) and Traditional Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2012). Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Fellow at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has published widely across the medical and social sciences on socio-environmental inequalities in health and health behaviour and the evaluation of health and social policies to reduce them. Beth Greenhough is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts Medical Tourists and Professionals (Ashgate 2015) and has authored papers on the biomedical sciences and their impact on society bioethics and the history of medical research. Daniel Lewis is Research Fellow in Spatial Analysis at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a quantitative Health Geographer who is interested in the socio-spatial dimensions of health welfare and inequality. Andrew Power is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. His research interests focus on the geographies of caregiving and disability and the post-asylum geographies of mental health. He has published widely in leading journals as well as two recent books Landscapes of care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Ashgate 2010) and Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support (Cambridge University Press 2013).