Drawing on three main disciplines, geography, sociology, and epidemiology, author Tony Gatrell makes strong connections between these areas of inquiry, drawing on (for example) social theorising, geographical concepts, and epidemiological methods and data. The book will be of interest to the growing number of geographers working on the geography of health, along with social scientists involved in the mobilities 'turn'. The issues and problems which are considered - whether re-emerging infections, displaced persons, or the 'risks' of globalised travel - are of current and ongoing concern.
Contents: Preface; Mobilising concepts; Part 1 Travel: Walking and cycling; Four wheels good?, Trains, and boats and planes; Vacations and the tourist. Part 2 Migration: The displaced and dispossessed; Migration, health and well-being. Part 3 Diffusion: Disease spread in first modernity; Disease spread in second modernity: emerging and re-emerging diseases. Part 4 Communication and Care: Mobilities of information; Mobilities of carers and care; Conclusions: emerging themes for mobilities and health; Bibliography; Index.
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