Locating Health Dyck Fletcher 2011 Medical History Anthropology

by Christopher Fletcher, Erika Dyck

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LOCATING HEALTH: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF PLACE AND HEALTH Edited by Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher Pickering & Chatto, London, 2011. Hardcover. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, No. 2. ISBN 9781848931497. Specialist academic collection examining the relationship between health, illness, geography, culture and place from historical and anthropological perspectives. Contributions examine subjects including maternal health in India; historical geography and health care; medicine in Maine; Cold War politics and the history of hyperactivity in the United States; the development of Canadian universal medical insurance in comparison with the United States; American medical research on mustard gas and polio in Alberta; chronic disease in the Yukon River Basin; tuberculosis, race and place in the Canadian West; and Serbian landscapes of healing. Contributors include Helen Vallianatos, Jonathan Reinarz, Sasha Mullally, Matthew Smith, Alvin Finkel, Susan L. Smith, Stephen Mawdsley, Hugo De Burgos, Liza Piper, Maureen Lux and Marko Živković. Original Pickering & Chatto hardcover edition, distinct from the later Routledge paperback edition. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover remains clean and attractive with light shelf/handling wear and minor bumping/creasing at extremities. Firm binding. Several chapter numbers have been circled by a previous reader on the contents page, as shown in the photographs. Original bookstore price sticker re

• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
• Year: 2011
• ISBN: 9781848931497
• Condition: Very Good

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