GeoHumanities and Health

In: Global Perspectives on Health Geography Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: GeoHumanities and Health -- The GeoHumanities -- Medicine, Health and the Humanities -- GeoHumanities and Health -- Bodies -- Voices -- Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Bodies -- How to Convey That Dying Really Is Lonely -- Chapter 2: Sensing Health and Wellbeing Through Oral Histories: The 'Tip and Run' Air Attacks on a British Coastal Town 1939-1944 -- Introduction: The Sensory Turn -- The Oral History Tradition -- The Setting and Study -- Findings -- Sensing Restrictions and Change -- Sensing Air Raids -- Sensing Mitigation and Aftermath -- Sensing Normality -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Bodies at the Crossroads Between Immigration and Health -- Immigrant Women's Bodies in a Context of Restrictive Policies -- Bodies Combining Disadvantages: Pregnant, Undocumented and Poor Women -- Geo-Humanities: Building a Bridge Between Geographies and Art Photography to Replace Women's Bodies in Sensitive Contexts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Beyond Therapy: Exploring the Potential of Sharing Dance to Improve Social Inclusion for People Living with Dementia -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Social Inclusion and the Body -- Insights from the Baycrest NBS Sharing Dance Seniors Programs -- Understanding Feelings and Embodied Encounters -- Discussion and Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 5: Critical Places and Emerging Health Matters: Body, Risk and Spatial Obstacles -- Introduction -- A Self-Reflexive Narrative -- Bodily Sensations and Place -- Health Risks and Social Risks -- In and Out of Places -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Sensing Nature: Unravelling Metanarratives of Nature and Blindness -- Introduction -- The Place of the Visual in Metanarratives of Nature and Blindness.