Overview

Health geographers are increasingly turning to a diverse range of interpretative methodologies to explore the complexities of health, illness, space and place to gain more comprehensive understandings of well-being and broader social models of health and health care. Drawing upon postmodernism, many health geographers are concerned with issues of representation, the body and health care policy. Also related to an emphasis on the body is the growing literature in feminist health geography that investigates the metaphorical, physical and emotional challenges of the body and disease. Reflecting these interests, the chapters in this book set out the host of creative qualitative methods being used to explore the psychosocial experiences of individuals more directly and include a reflective section on praxis from the authors. Illustrating how qualitative methodologies are used in diverse health contexts this book fills an important niche for health geographers but will have wide appeal to health and geographic researchers.

Full Product Details

Author:   Assoc Prof Jamie Baxter ,  Dr Nancy E Fenton ,  Professor Susan J Elliott ,  Dr Allison Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781472445407

ISBN 10:   1472445406
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   28 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Praxis in qualitative health geography, Jamie Baxter and Nancy E. Fenton. Part 1 Representation, Ethics and Power: Placing narrative correspondence in the geographer's toolbox: insights from care research in New Zealand, Christine Milligan; Photo elicitation as method: a participatory approach, Tara Coleman; Ethics and activism in environment and health research, Sarah A. Mason, Chad Walker, Jamie Baxter and Isaac Luginaah. Part 2 Representation, Self and Community: Writing illness through feminist autobiographical analysis, Pamela Moss; Community capacity building through qualitative methodologies, Sarah A. Lovell and Mark W. Rosenberg; Walking in their shoes: utilizing go-along interviews to explore participant engagement with local space, Jennifer Dean. Part 3 Representation through Visual Media: What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography's qualitative palette?, Stephanie E. Coen; Applying decolonizing methodologies in environment-health research: a community-based film project with Anishinabe communities, Chantelle A.M. Richmond; Not another interview! Using Photovoice and digital stories as props in participatory health geography research, Heather Castleden, Vanessa Sloan Morgan and Aaron Franks; Media and framing: processes and challenges, S. Michelle Driedger and Theresa Garvin. Part 4 (Non)Representation, Affect and Social Life: From the pump to senescence: two musical acts of more-than-representational `acting into' and `building new' life, Gavin J. Andrews and Eric Drass; Managing and overcoming the challenges of qualitative research on palliative family caregivers, Allison Williams; Informal caregiving on the move: examining the experiences of Canadian medical tourists' caregiver-companions from patients' perspectives, Valerie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey and Rebecca Whitmore; Conclusion, Robin Kearns. Index.

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Nancy E. Fenton is Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the Unviersity of Waterloo involved in interdisciplinary qualitative health research investigating the relationship between the environment and health as it relates to risk perception, particularly among children and youth. Jamie Baxter is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Western University, Canada. His research interests include: the social construction of risks from technological hazards, community responses to hazards, environment and health, noxious facility siting, and methodology.

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