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    A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

    By Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty and Graham Moon

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    About this ebook

    This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles.
    • Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography
    • Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors
    • Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline
    • Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material
    • Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateNov 19, 2009
    ISBN9781444314779
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    A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
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    Tim Brown

    Tim Brown is the CEO and president of IDEO. Ranked independently among the ten most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is the global consultancy that contributed to such standard-setting innovations as the first mouse for Apple and the Palm V. Today IDEO applies its human-centered approach to drive innovation and growth for the world's leading businesses, as well as for government, education, health care, and social sectors. Tim advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies and has led strategic client relationships with such corporations as Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase.

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