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Mobilities and health

Title
Mobilities and health / Anthony C. Gatrell.
Author
Gatrell, Anthony C.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.

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Description
xii, 229 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Geographies of health
Uniform Title
Ashgate's geographies of health series.
Subject
  • Medical geography
  • Environmental health
  • Social medicine
  • Travel
  • Epidemiology
  • Geography
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Sociology, Medical
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mobilising concepts -- Walking and cycling -- Four wheels good? -- Trains, and boats, and planes -- Vacations and the tourist -- The displaced and dispossessed -- Migration, health, and well-being -- Disease spread in first modernity -- Disease spread in second modernity: emerging and re-emerging diseases -- Mobilities of information -- Mobilities of carers and care -- Conclusions: emerging themes for mobilities and health.
ISBN
  • 9781409419921 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1409419924 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781409419938 (ebook)
  • 1409419932 (ebook)
LCCN
2011017634
OCLC
  • ocn732776443
  • 732776443
  • SCSB-8857283
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries