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Title:
Locating health : historical and anthropological investigations of health and place / edited by Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher.
Publisher:
Pickering & Chatto,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xv, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Public health--Anthropological aspects.
Medical geography.
Medical anthropology.
Other Authors:
Dyck, Erika.
Fletcher, Christopher M., 1963-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
clear streams, stones of prophesy, St. Sava's ribs, and the wooden city of Oz / Healthscapes : health and place among and between disciplines / Mark ¿ưivkovi♯. Placing maternal health in India / Helen Vallianatos -- Putting medicine in its place : the importance of historical geography to the history of health care / Jonathan Reinarz -- Finding place in The big-little world of Doc Pritham : telling medical tales about Northwoods Maine, 1920s-70s / Sasha Mullally -- Putting hyperactivity in its place : Cold War politics, the brain race and the origins of hyperactivity in the United States, 1957-68 / Matthew Smith -- Why Canada has a universal medical insurance programme and the United States does not : accounting for historical differences in American and Canadian social policies / Alvin Finkel -- Alberta advantage : a Canadian proving ground for American medical research on mustard gas and polio in the 1940s and 50s / Susan L. Smith and Stephen Mawdsley -- Placing illness in its cultural territory in Veracruz, Nicaragua / Hugo De Burgos -- Chronic disease in the Yukon River Basin, 1890-1960 / Liza Piper -- An ideal home for the consumptive : place, race and tuberculosis in the Canadian West / Maureen Lux -- Serbian landscapes of dreamtime and healing : clear streams, stones of prophesy, St. Sava's ribs, and the wooden city of Oz / Mark ¿ưivkovi♯.
Series:
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 2
ISBN:
1848931492 (alk. paper)
9781848931497 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)694227247
LCCN:
2010537658
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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