The authors outline the main research questions in medical geography and consider how these can be investigated. As well as exploring traditional issues of medical geography, they also examine key issues in international medical sociology.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Health, place and society: an historical perspective -- Ch. 3. Mapping and measuring -- Ch. 4. The social and spatial patterning of health -- Ch. 5. Health inequalities: composition or context? -- Ch. 6. Health and social/spatial mobility -- Ch. 7. Putting research into context: from cholera to good health for all.