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This volume brings together research in the GeoHumanities from various intellectual perspectives to illustrate the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historically entrenched and recently emergent health-related challenges. In three main sections, this volume seeks to foreground the richness of work entangling medicine and health with the concerns of geography and of the Humanities. This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers in the Geographies of health and medicine, social sciences in GeoHumanities, and health humanities, and students in programs focusing on the humanities and health. In the book's first section, Bodies, the authors explore the material, sensory and more than physical capacities of bodies in accounting for experiences of death, air raids, immigration, dance therapy, asthma and blindness. Section two, Voice, addresses the nature of evidence, HIV/AIDS policy, patient voices in animal research, homelessness, and constructions of truth. The final section, Practice, focuses on creative writing, as well as the pedagogic tools of teaching with the asylum, the creative practice of nuclear emergency planning zones, arts-based care for the elderly, and cartographic practices within health research. “This engaging collection offers insightful encounters with the geographical imagination that bring a depth of human experience to medical and health concerns. It adds critical weight to the ‘geohumanities turn’ by not only providing an important foundational collection but also by suggesting future opportunities at the permeable edges of the humanities, health and place.” -Robin Kearns, University of Auckland "Live issues, matters of life and death, lively stories and deathly silences: these are the difficult grounds tracked and troubled by this wonderful new collection, a pioneering effort to explore the meeting of GeoHumanities with medical/health humanities. Straddling disciplines and reaching beyond the academy, contributions to this collection - poetic, evocative, experiential, experimental, scholarly and critical - tellingly illuminate multiple new possibilities for GeoHumanistic medical-health inquiry and care-full, practical interventions." -Christopher Philo, University of Glasgow.

Human geography. --- Medical geography. --- Human Geography. --- Social medicine. --- Quality of Life --- Bioethics. --- Medical Geography. --- Medical Sociology. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Public Health. --- Research. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Diseases --- Geographical distribution of diseases --- Geographical pathology --- Geography, Medical --- Geomedicine --- Medical topography --- Pathology, Geographic --- Topography, Medical --- Medical climatology --- World health --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- Geographical distribution --- Medical research. --- Public health. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Biomedical research --- Medical research --- Medicine and the humanities --- Human body. --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Humanities and medicine --- Humanities --- Social Determinants of Health --- Human Migration --- Structural Determinants of Health --- Health Social Determinant --- Health Social Determinants --- Health Structural Determinant --- Health Structural Determinants --- Community Support --- Nosogeography --- Medical Geography --- Diaspora --- Diasporas --- Human Migrations --- Migration, Human --- Migrations, Human