Geography Department
Queen Mary
University of London
Health, Place and Diversity
GEG6106
Module Handbook 2008-09
GEG6106
HEALTH, PLACE AND DIVERSITY
2008/09
Convener: Professor Isabel Dyck
Lecturer: Professor Isabel Dyck
Office: Room 109
Email: i.dyck@qmul.ac.uk
Office hours: Mondays 4.00-5.00 p.m. or by appointment
Lectures: Mondays 2-4pm, Semester A
Welcome to the module. This handbook provides you with a summary overview of the course
aims, assessment information, and an outline of each week's topic and readings. There is a core
reading list for each week, and a supplementary list from which you may choose to enhance the
depth of your understanding. Supplementary reading will also be useful for the coursework essay
and in preparing for the examination.
Aims of the course:
The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the embeddedness of health and health behaviour
within geographies of power. Through a range of topical themes, it demonstrates the contribution of work at
the interface of health, cultural and social geography to understanding contemporary health issues. A focus on
narrative-based approaches in health geography is used in the critical examination of contemporary health
issues and their conceptualisation.
Course content:
The course examines a variety of contemporary health and care issues and their distinct
geographies. The tension between biomedical and alternative knowledges of healthy and ill
bodies is an underlying theme informing the course and the body is a lens through which to
explore such tension. Topical themes of the course are used to examine how health and care
experience is constructed, interpreted, managed and represented within relations of power and
social, cultural, and economic change. The course will draw on a number of theoretical influences
to consider the gendered, classed and ‘raced’ dimensions of health, illness and care and their
shaping by political economy, globalisation and the politics of medical knowledge.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will acquire knowledge about:
 the situatedness of health and health behaviour in political economy, social and cultural
change, and the politics of health knowledge
 how gender, ‘race’, class, life course and other dimensions of difference are implicated in
health experience
 the potential contribution of narrative-based approaches in health geography to address
public health issues
Students will develop skills in:
 critical interpretation of qualitative material
 written and verbal argument incorporating course materials
Method of Instruction:
Lecture content will introduce the main ideas covered in the course. This will be supplemented by
small group discussion, mini-quizzes and other forms of class participation. You are encouraged
to look out for examples of media coverage of current health issues, which will help you link
course concepts to contemporary social and health concerns.
Feedback on any in-class or other informal assessment (e.g. quizzes) will be provided in the same
class or the following week. Written feedback comments on the coursework essay will be
provided within four term-time weeks of submission (see assessment information below).
Course Reading:
There is no text for the course. The following are useful as background or refresher reading:
Curtis, S. (2004) Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives. London, Sage
Gatrell, A.C. (2002) Geographies of Health: An Introduction, Oxford, Blackwell.
Gesler W.M. and Kearns. R.A. (2002) Culture/Place/Health. London, Routledge
Cummins, S. and Milligan, C. (2000) Taking up the challenge: new directions in the geographies
of health and impairment, Area 32: 7-9
Kearns, R.A. and Gesler, W.M. (1998) Introduction, in R.A. Kearns and W.M. Gesler (eds)
Putting Health into Place: Landscape, Identity and Well-being, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse
University Press, pp. 1-16
Kearns, R.A. and Moon, G. (2002) From medical to health geography: novelty, place and theory
after a decade of change, Progress in Human Geography 26, 5: 605-625
Kearns, R.A. (1995) Medical geography: making space for difference. Progress in Human
Geography 19(2):249-257
Kearns, R.A. (1996) AIDS and medical geography: embracing the other? Progress in Human
Geography 20(1):123-131
Kearns, R.A. (1997) Narratives and metaphor in health geographies Progress in Human
Geography 21(2): 269-277
Parr H (2004) Medical geography: critical medical and health geography? Progress in Human
Geography 28:246-257
.
Key and supplementary readings are listed with individual lecture information. Key readings
provide backing for lecture content. Supplementary readings are intended to give you broader
coverage of key issues addressed in the lectures, together with providing sources for the
coursework essay. Additional supplementary readings may be added during the course.
Course outline:
The week-by-week course lecture topics are:
1. Introduction to module. Embodying health geography.
2. Health knowledges: negotiated meanings of health and illness
3. Bodies, body knowledges and the state: public health as a biopolitical project
4. Optimising the body: health, beauty, consumer culture
5. ‘Other’ bodies – geographies of disability
6. ‘Other’ minds – managing ‘madness’
7. Reading Week
8. Gendered bodies and health: Feminist geographies of health
9. Bodies across borders: migration and health
10. Environment, health and well-being: spaces of health and healing
11. Care and caregiving in geographies of health
12. Bodies, labour processes and health
ASSESSMENT:
1. One unseen written examination: 75% of total marks
Please note: past exam papers can provide guidance, but each year module content varies and
students should consult the current handbook for up-to-date information
AND
2. Coursework essay of 2500 words: 25% of total marks
This assignment is intended to give you an opportunity to explore the links between a ‘real
world’ contemporary health issue and concepts from the module. Using a recent healthrelated issue covered in the media, develop an analysis drawing on ideas and readings from
the module. You may use a media article of your own choice, or choose one that will be
provided in Week 12. Students are encouraged to draw on concepts from at least two
lectures. Time will be given in class in Week 12 to discuss the coursework essay.
Any student wishing to have feedback on titles and topic ideas need to submit these by Week
11, for feedback in Week 12.
PLEASE NOTE: students will receive feedback on coursework within four term-time weeks of
its submission (by the end of Week 9 Semester B).. Any marks returned to students remain
provisional until confirmed by the Geography Board of Examiners at the end of each academic
year. Marks may also be changed following any second marking process. See next page for
marking criteria.
HAND-IN DATE for coursework essay is 9th February 2009
(1) SUBMIT BY WEBCT between 9am and 5pm and
(2) IDENTICAL COPY TO THE DROP BOX LOCATED IN THE FOYER ON THE
1ST FLOOR OF THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT between 9am and 5pm.
NOTE: Late submissions will NOT be accepted unless there are extenuating circumstances;
extensions must be agreed beforehand with the 3rd Year Tutor (Simon Carr).
All essays are checked automatically for plagiarism. Please make sure you understand correct
referencing. Evidence of plagiarism will result in a 0 mark for the essay.
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. EMBODYING GEOGRAPHIES OF
HEALTH
This lecture introduces the course through a focus on problematising the body – or bodies. It
considers how different ways of conceptualising the body have implications for how ‘healthy’
and ‘ill’ bodies are understood and managed. Can the body be thought of as ‘natural’? How have
societal and technological changes shaped the way bodies are understood? In what ways has work
in sociology and human geography on the body been translated into health geography concerns?
The lecture and key readings provide an overview of these issues and their relationship to
‘embodying’ geographies of health.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- acquire knowledge of different approaches to theorising the body and how they have been
utilised in work seeking to explain geographies of health
- be able to discuss the notion of ‘embodying’ health geography knowledge
Key Readings:
Hall, E. (2000) ‘Blood, brain and bones’: taking the body seriously in the geography of health and
impairment, Area 32(1): 21-29
Parr, H. (2002) Medical geography: diagnosing the body in medical and health geography 19992000. Progress in Human Geography 27:240-251
Petersen, A. (2007) The Body in Question: A Socio-cultural Approach, London, Routledge.
Chapters 1 and 2.
Supplementary Reading:
Callard, F. (1998) The body in theory. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16: 387400
Dorn, M. and Laws, G. (1994) Social theory, body politics, and medical geography: extending
Kearns’ invitation, The Professional Geographer 46(1): 106-110
Howson, A. (2004) The Body in Society: An Introduction. Polity Press, pp. 1-14
Moss, P. and Dyck, I. (2003) Embodying social geography. In K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile
and N. Thrift (eds) Handbook of Cultural Geography, Sage, pp.58-73.
Longhurst, R. (1995) The body and geography. Gender, Place and Culture 2:97-105
Valentine, G. (2001) Social Geographies: Space and Society. London, Prentice Hall pp15-55
(Chapter 2)
WEEK 2: HEALTH KNOWLEDGES: NEGOTIATED MEANINGS OF HEALTH AND
ILLNESS
Petersen (2007:8) referring to Foucault’s influential work states, “Seeing power as residing in
categories and distinctions focuses attention on knowledge and those who produce knowledge”.
This lecture introduces the notion of plural health knowledges, socially and culturally constructed
within relations of power. What is health? What is a ‘healthy’ body? The temporality of
constructions of health and illness and their relationship to societal norms are discussed. Health
knowledges are shown to hold different authority in defining and managing healthy and ill
bodies.The lecture will consider the tension between ‘expert’, alternative and lay health
knowledges and use case examples to demonstrate the contribution of space and place to
‘knowing’ the ‘ill’ or ‘diseased’ body.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will
- be familiar with the notion of health knowledge as socially and culturally constructed within
relations of power
- acquire knowledge of sites where ‘expert’ and ‘experiential’ health knowledges are
constructed and negotiated
- critically consider the spatialisation of knowledge producing sites as a dimension of power in
understanding health and illness
Key Readings:
Doel, M.A. and Segrott, J. (2003) Beyond belief? Consumer culture, complementary medicine
and the disease of everyday life. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21:739759
Hall, E. (2004) Spaces and networks of genetic knowledge making: the ‘geneticisation of heart
disease, Health & Place, 10(4), 311-318.
Parr, H. (2002) New body-geographies: the embodied spaces of health and illness information on
the Internet, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 73-95.
Petersen, A. (2007) The Body in Question: A Socio-cultural Approach. London, Routledge.
Chapter 5 Powers of mind over body pp 104-131
Supplementary Reading:
General
Craddock, S. (1995) Sewers and scapegoats: spatial metaphors of smallpox in nineteenth century
San Francisco. Social Science and Medicine 41: 957-968
Curtis, S. and Taket, A. (1996) Health & Societies: Changing Perspectives, Arnold. Chapter Two
Davies, G., Day, R. and Williamson, S. (2004) The geography of health knowledge/s. Editorial.
Health & Place, 10(4), 293-297
Gordon, C. (ed).(1980) Power/Knowledge. Selected Interviews and Other Writings 19721977.Michel Foucault. New York, Pantheon
King, M. and Watson, K. (2004) Introduction. In: Martin King and Katherine Watson (eds)
Representing Health: Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media. Palgrave Macmillan,
pp. 1-21.
Petersen, A. and Bunton, R. (eds) (1997) Foucault, Health and Medicine. London, Routledge
Place and’ lay perceptions’
Airey, L. (2003) ‘Nea as ice a scheme as it used to be’: lay account of neighbourhood incivilities
and well-being, Health and Place 9:129-138
Cornwell, J. (1983) Hard-earned Lives: Accounts of Health and Illness in East London. London,
Tavistock.
Biomedical and genetic knowledge
Hall, E. (2003) Reading maps of genes: interpreting the spatiality of genetic knowledge, Health &
Place 9:151-162
Schaffer, R., Kuczynski, K. and Skinner, D. (2007) Producing genetic knowledge and citizenship
through the internet: mothers, pediatric genetics, and cybermedicine, Sociology of Health &
Illness 30(1): 145-159
Complementary and Alternative Medicine/issues of integration
Andrews, G.J. (2002) Private complementary medicine and older people: service use and user
empowerment. Ageing & Society 22: 343-368
Coward, R.(1993) The myth of alternative health. In: A. Beattie, M. Gott, L. Jones and M. Sidell
(eds) Health and Wellbeing: A Reader. Milton Keynes, Open University pp 94-101
Doel, M.A. and Segrott, J. (2003) Self, health, and gender: complementary and alternative
medicine in the British mass media, Gender, Place and Culture, 10(2): 131-144
Dyck, I. 1995) Putting chronic illness in place: women immigrants’ accounts of their health care,
Geoforum 26(3): 247-260
Hare, M.L. (1993) The emergence of an urban US Chinese medicine, Medical Anthropology
Quarterly, New Series 7(1):30-49
Johnston, S.L. (2002) Native American Traditional and Alternative Medicine, Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science 583:195-213
Jonas, W.B. (2002) Policy, the public, and priorities in alternative medicine research, Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science 583:28-43
Offiong, D.A. (1999) Traditional healers in the Nigerian health care delivery system and the
debate over integrating traditional and scientific medicine, Anthropological Quarterly
72(3): 118-130
Wiles, J. and Rosenberg, M. (2001) ‘Gentle, caring experience’: seeking alternative care in
Canada. Health & Place 7(3): 209-224
Willis, E. and White, K. (2004) Evidence-based medicine and CAM, in P. Tovey, G. Easthope
and J. Adams (eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
Studies in Social Context. London, Routledge
WEEK 3: BODIES, BODY KNOWLEDGE AND THE STATE: PUBLIC HEALTH AS A
BIOPOLITICAL PROJECT
The lecture considers the influence of social change and developments in medical knowledge of
the body on approaches taken to managing public health. Increasingly health messages encourage
self-responsibility for health, framing this as a moral duty. The lecture focuses on the notion of
the ‘risky body’, its regulation, and possibilities for resistance. The example of obesity will be
used as a primary case study.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- be familiar with interconnections between knowledge of the body and the framing of public
health concerns
- be able to discuss the contribution of health geographers to understanding links between social
identities, places and responses to health education and promotion messages
Key Readings:
Brown, T. and Duncan, C. (2002) Placing geographies of public health. Area, 33 (4): 361-369.
Evans, B (2006) ‘Gluttony or sloth’: critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity
policy Area 38(3): 259-267
Herrick C. (2007) Risky bodies: Public health, social marketing and the governance of obesity
Geoforum 38(1): 90-102
Supplementary Reading:
Bell, D. and Valentine, G. (1997) Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. London,
Routledge
Brown T and Bell M (2007) Off the couch and on the move: Global public health and the
medicalisation of nature Social Science & Medicine 64(6): 1343-1354
Collins D.C.A, Kearns R.A and Mitchell H (2006) "An integral part of the children's education":
placing sun protection in Auckland primary schools Health & Place 12 (4): 436-448
Colls, R. (2004) “Looking alright, feeling alright”: emotions, sizing and the geographies of
women’s experience of clothing consumption, Social and Cultural Geography 5(4):583-596
Cummins, S and Macintyre, S. (2006) Food environments and obesity: neighbourhood or nation?
International Journal of Epidemiology 35, 100-104
Fusco, C. (2006) Inscribing healthification: governance, risk, surveillance and the subjects and
spaces of fitness and health Health & Place 12(1): 65-78
Guthman, J. and DuPois, M. (2006) Embodying neoliberalism: economy, culture and the politics
of fat. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24, 427-448
Howson, A. (2004) The Body in Society: An Introduction, Cambridge, Polity Press, pp 120-139
(Chapter 5 Regulating the body)
Longhurst, R. (2005) Fat bodies: developing geographical research agendas. Progress in Human
Geography 29, 247-259
Lupton, D. (1995) The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body. London,
Sage (especially Chapter 5)
Rawlins, E. (2008) Citizenship, health education and the obesity ‘crisis’, ACME 135-151
Renzaho, A.M.N. (2004) Fat, rich and beautiful: changing socio-cultural paradigms associated
with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa, Health &
Place 10: 105-113
Rose, N. (2007) The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twentyfirst Century..Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp 9-40
Valentine, G. (1999) A corporeal geography of consumption. Environment and Planning
D: Society and Space 17, 329-351
WEEK 4: OPTIMISING BODIES: HEALTH, BEAUTY, CONSUMER CULTURE
This week’s lecture focuses on the beauty/health/lifestyle nexus that emerged with consumer
capitalism. While public health messages in the global north emphasise exercise and nutritional
intake in promoting the health, medical and technological advances provide potential ‘short cuts’
to achieving the ideal body. In this lecture body modification activities are considered, including
eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, and cosmetic surgery. Although such activities are
primarily associated with women and girls, increasing numbers of men and older people are
caught up in the body/beauty/health nexus. The linking of social identities, culture, place and
optimal body size provide a focus for discussion of the ‘colonisation’ of the body by normative
discourses of beauty and health and ways this may be contested.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- acquire knowledge of the historical and cultural specificity of ‘appropriate’ body size
- be able to assess the role of specific sites in mediating relationships between health, beauty
and consumer culture
Key readings:
Dias, K. (2003) The Ana-sanctuary: women’s pro-anorexia narratives in cyberspace, Journal of
International Women’s Studies, 4(2):31-45
Edmonds, A. (2007) ‘The poor have the right to be beautiful’: cosmetic surgery in neo-liberal
Brazil, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, New Series 13:363-381
Litva, A., Peggs, K. and Moon, G. (2001) Locating young women’s health and appearance. In: I.
Dyck, N.D. Lewis and S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health. London, Routledge,
pp. 248-264
Petersen, A. (2007) The Body in Question: A Socio-cultural Approach. London, Routledge.
Chapter 3 Reshaping and perfecting bodies pp 47-79
Supplementary reading:
Becker, A.E. (2002) Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television
among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 180:509-514.
Body & Society (1999) Special Issue: Body Modification, 5:2-3
Davis, K. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemmas of Cosmetic Surgery, New York,
Routledge
Eckermann, L. (1997) Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities. In: A. Petersen and R.
Bunton (eds) Foucault, Health and Medicine. London, Routledge, pp. 151-169
Kaw, E. (1993) The medicalization of racial features: Asian American women and cosmetic
surgery, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series 7(1): 74-89
Kim, T. (2003) Neo-Confucian body techniques: women’s bodies in Korea’s consumer society,
Body and Society 9:97
Latham, M. (2008) The shape of things to come: feminism, regulation and cosmetic surgery,
Medical Law Review 00: 1-21
Featherstone, M. (1991) The body in consumer culture. In: M. Featherstone, M. Hepworth and
B.S. Turner (eds) The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory. London, Sage, pp. 170-196
Howson, A. (2004) The Body in Society: An Introduction, Cambridge, Polity Press, pp.93-119
(Chapter Four: The body in consumer culture)
Xu, G. and Feiner, S. (2007) Meinu Jingji/China’s beauty economy: buying looks, shifting value,
and changing place, Feminist Economics 13 (3-4): 307-323
WEEK 5: ‘OTHER BODIES’: GEOGRAPHIES OF DISABILITY
The lecture this week considers the contribution of geography to understanding disabled bodies
and disability experience, tracing key concerns over time. It explores the notion of disability as a
sociospatial construct and goes on to consider ways the body has been incorporated into analysis.
The complex interlinking of spatial arrangements, social and medical norms, and the experience
of a non-normative body are examined. Discourses and social identities are shown to interweave
with space in constructing disability and chronic illness experience.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- learn about the implications of including a theorised account of the body and experiential
accounts in constructing geographies of disability, impairment and chronic illness
- be familiar with how medical knowledge, bodily experience, social identities and institutions
interplay in constructing spatialities of disability/chronic illness experience
Key Readings:
Chouinard, V. (1997) Making space for disabling difference: challenging ableist geographies.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15: 379-387
Dyck, I. (1995) Hidden geographies: the changing lifeworlds of women with disabilities Social
Science and Medicine 40:307-320
Gleeson, B. (1999) Geographies of Disability, London, Routledge (especially Chapter 4)
Hall, E. (2000) ‘Blood, brain and bones’: taking the body seriously in the geography of health and
impairment, Area 32(1): 21-29
Hall, E. and Kearns, R.A. (2001) Making space for the ‘intellectual’ in geographies of disability,
Health & Place 7(3): 237-246
Moss, P. and Dyck, I. (1996) Inquiry into environment and body: women, work and chronic
illness. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14: 737-753
Parr, H. and Butler, R. (1999) ‘New geographies of illness, impairment and disability’, in. In R.
Butler and H. Parr (eds) Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Disability, Illness and
Impairment, London, Routledge, pp. 1-24.
Supplementary Reading:
Atkin, K., Ahmad, W.I.U. and Jones, L. (2002) Young South Asian deaf people and their
families: negotiating relationships and identities, Sociology of Health & Illness 24(1): 2146
Butler, R. and Parr, H. (eds) (1999) Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Disability, Illness
and Impairment, London, Routledge (various chapters)
Coyle, F. (2004) ‘Safe space’ as counter-space: women, environmental illness and ‘corporeal
chaos.’ The Canadian Geographer 48(1): 62-75
Crooks, V.A..and Chouinard, V. (2006) An embodied geography of disablement: chronically ill
women’s struggles for enabling places and spaces of health care and daily life. Health &
Place 12(3): 345-352
Dorn, M. (1998) Beyond nomadism: the travel narratives of a ‘cripple’. In: Heidi J. Nast and
Steve Pile (eds) Places Through the Body. New York, Routledge, pp183-206
Dyck, I. (1999) Body troubles: Women, the workplace and negotiations of a disabled identity. In
R. Butler and H. Parr (eds) Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Disability, Illness and
Impairment, London, Routledge, pp.119-137
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (1997) Special Issue: Geographies of Disability
15: 379-480
Imrie, R. (ed) (2001) Barriered and bounded places and the spatialities of disability, Urban
Studies 38(2): 231-237
Holt, L. (2003) Disabling children in primary school micro-spaces: geographies of inclusion and
exclusion. Health and Place, 9: 119-128.
Imrie, R. and Edwards, C. (2007) The geographies of disability: reflections on the development of
a sub-discipline. Geography Compass 2 www.geography-compass.com
Kitchin, R. (1998) ‘Out of place,’ knowing one’s place’: space, power and the exclusion of
disabled people, Disability and Society, 13(3): 343-356
Matthews, H. and Vujakovic., P. (1995) ‘Mapping the environment of wheelchair users’,
Geography Review (January), 30-34
Moss, P. (1997) Negotiating spaces in home environments: older women living with arthritis,
Social Science and Medicine 45:23-33
Moss, P. and Dyck, I. (2001) Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic
illness in the workplace. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies of
Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 231-247
Moss, P. and Dyck, I. (2002) Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of
Women and Chronic Illness. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield.
Pain, R., Barke, M., Fuller, D., Gough, J., MacFarlane, R. and Mowl, G. (2001) Introducing
Social Geographies. London, Arnold. Chapter 8: Geographies of Disability.
Park, D.C., Radford, J.P. and Vi ckers, M.H. (1998) Disability studies in human geography.
Progress in Human Geography 22: 208-233
Parr, H. (2002) Medical geography: diagnosing the body in medical and health geography, 19992000. Progress in Human Geography, 26(2):240-251
Sothern, M. (2007). You could truly be yourself if you just weren’t you: sexuality, disabled
bodyspace and the (neo)liberal politics of self-help. Environment and Planning D:Society and
Space 25(1):144-159
Valentine, G. (2001) Social Geographies: Space and Society, London, Prentice Hall. Chapter
Two
Valentine, G. (1999) What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability. In: R. Butler
and H. Parr (eds) Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Disability, Illness and
Impairment, London, Routledge, pp.167-180
Wilton, R.(1996) Diminished worlds? The geography of everyday life with HIV/AIDS, Health
and Place 2(2): 69-83
Wilton, R. (2004). From flexibility to accommodation: disabled workers and the reinvention of
paid work. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers NS 29, 420-432
WEEK 6: ‘OTHER’ MINDS: MANAGING ‘MADNESS’
Continuing from last week’s lecture we consider the relationships among body/mind differences,
space, and medical knowledge. Consequences of the medicalisation of ‘madness’ for issues of
exclusion/inclusion are examined. The relationship between place and experiences of mental
health problems provide a focus for discussion, including the role of space in managing those
categorised as mentally ill.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- be able to discuss the role of narrative accounts of living with ‘madness’ in understanding the
medicalisation of ‘different minds’
- acquire knowledge of the relationship between place/space and the management of those with
mental health problems
- be able to discuss the relationship between the body/mind, referring to case studies
Key Readings:
Davidson, J. (2000) “The world was getting smaller”: agoraphobia and bodily boundaries, Area
32(1):31-40
Milligan, C. (2000) ‘Breaking out of the asylum’: developments in the geography of mental illhealth – the influence of the informal sector, Health & Place 6(3): 189-200
Parr, H. (1999) Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental
health. In: R. Butler and H. Parr (eds) Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Illness,
Impairment and Disability. London, Routledge, pp. 181-202.
Parr, H. (1999) Delusional geographies: embodied experiences of ‘madness’/illness, Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space 17: 673-690
Parr, H. and Philo, C. (2003) Rural mental health and social geographies of caring. Social and
Cultural Geography 4(4):471-488
Supplementary Reading:
Curtis, S. (2004) Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives. London, Sage. Chapter
Seven
Davidson, J. (2001) Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia, and body boundaries.
In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health, London and
New York, Routledge, pp. 213-230
Davidson, J. (2007) ‘In a world of her own …’: re-presenting alienation and emotion in the lives
and writings of women with autism, Gender, Place and Culture, 14(6): 659-677
Gattuso, S., Fullagar, S. and Young, I. (2005) Speaking of women’s ‘nameless misery’: the
everyday construction of depression in Australian women’s magazines Social Science and
Medicine 61(8): 1640-48.
Hardey, M. (2005) Writing digital selves: narratives of health and illness on the internet. In:
Martin King and Katherine Watson (eds) Representing Health: Discourses of Health and
Illness in the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 133-150.
Knowles, C. (2000) Burger King, Dunkin Donuts and the Politics of Community Mental Health
Care', Health & Place, 6: 213-224
Parr, H. (1998) Mental health, ethnography and the body, Area 30(1):28-37
Parr, H. (2000) Interpreting the ‘hidden social geographies’ of mental health: ethnographies of
inclusion and exclusion in semi-institutional places. Health & Place 6(3) 225-238
Parr, H. and Philo, C. (1995) Mapping ‘mad’ identities. In: S. Pile and N. Thrift (eds) Mapping
the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. New York, Routledge pp 199-205
Parr, H., Philo, C. and Burns. N. (2004) Social geographies of rural mental health: experiencing
inclusion and exclusion. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 29(4): 401419
Philo, C. (1997) Across the water: reviewing geographical studies of asylums and other mental
health facilities. Health & Place 3:73-89
Sashidharan, S.P. and Francis, E. (1993) ‘Epidemiology, ethnicity and schizophrenia’, in W.I.U.
Ahmad (ed) ‘Race’ and health in contemporary Britain, Buckingham, Open University
Press, pp. 137-166
Segrott, J., and Doel, M.A. (2004) Disturbing geography: obsessive-compulsive disorder as
spatial practice, Social & Cultural Geography 5(4): 597-614
Wolch, J. and Philo, C. (2000) From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference: past
and future mental health geographies, Health and Place 6(3): 137-157.
WEEK 7
READING WEEK
NO LECTURE
WEEK 8: GENDERED BODIES AND HEALTH: FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES OF
HEALTH AND GENDER STUDIES
With a particular focus on feminist geographies of health this lecture locates contemporary
geographical work about gender and health within a wider debate concerning gender inequities in
heath. It considers how conceptualisations of gender shape explanation of differences in the
health of men and women, and introduces work on men’s health primarily from sociology. It goes
on to explore how work at various scales illuminates the embeddedness of men’s and women’s
health in notions of masculinity and femininity, gender relations and place.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- be able to discuss the notion of gender as a socially constructed difference shaping health
status and behaviour
- acquire knowledge of different methodological approaches used in feminist health geography
to enhance understanding the relationship between place and women’s health
- explore the relationship between masculinity, place and men’s health behaviour
Key Readings:
Courtenay, W.H. (2000) Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men’s well-being: a
theory of gender and health, Social Science and Medicine, 50:1385-1401
Dyck, I. (2003) Feminism and health geography: twin tracks or divergent agendas? Gender, Place
and Culture 10:361-368
Dyck, I., Lewis, N.D., and McLafferty, S. (2001) Chapter 1: Why geographies of women’s
health? In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health,
London and New York, Routledge, pp. 1-20
Payne, S. (2006) The Health of Men and Women, Cambridge, Polity Press. Chapters One and
Two
Supplementary Reading:
Allison, M. and Harpham, T. (2002) Southern African perspectives on the geography of health.
Health and Place (Special Issue) 8 (4): 223-226.
Bondi, L. and Davidson, J. (2003) Troubling the place of gender. In: K. Anderson, M. Domosh,
S.Pile and N.Thrift (eds) Handbook of Cultural Geography, London, Sage, pp.325-343
Craddock, S. (2001) Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa. In: I. Dyck, N.D.
Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York,
Routledge, pp.41-60
Doyal, L. (1995) What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health,
London, Macmillan.
Doyal, L. (2000) Gender equity in health: debates and dilemmas, Social Science and Medicine,
51:931-939
Dyck, I. Lewis, N.D. and McLafferty, S. (2001) Geographies of Women’s Health, London,
Routledge – chapters represent various approaches, topics and international examples
Ellaway, A. and Macintyre, S. (2001) Women in their place: gender and perceptions of
neighbourhoods and health in the West of Scotland. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S.
McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 265281
Howson, A. (2004) The Body in Society: An Introduction, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 39-66 (Chapter
2, The body, gender and sex)
Inhorn, M and Whittle, K.L. (2001) Feminism meets the “new” epidemiologies: toward an
appraisal of antifeminist biases in epidemiological research on women’s health, Social
Science and Medicine, 53:553-567
McLafferty, S. and Templaski, B. (1995) Restructuring and women’s reproductive health:
implications for low birthweight in New York City Geoforum 26: 309-323
Noone, J.H. and Stephens, C. (2008) Men, masculine identities, and health care utilisation,
Sociology of Health & Illness 30(5): 711-725
O’Brien, R., Hunt, K., and Hart, G. (2005) “It’s caveman stuff, but that is to a certain extent how
guys still operate’: men’s accounts of masculinity and help seeking, Social Science and
Medicine 61(3): 503-516
Pain, R., Barke, M., Fuller, D., Gough, J., MacFarlane, R. and Mowl, G. (2001) Introducing
Social Geographies. London, Arnold. Chapter Six: Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.
Panelli, R (2004) Social Geographies: From Difference to Action, Sage. Chapter 4: Gender
Popay, J. and Groves, K. (2000) ‘Narrative’ in research on gender inequalities in health. In: E.
Allendale and K. Hunt (eds) Gender Inequalities in Health. Buckingham and Philadelphia,
Open University Press, pp. 64-89 (especially pp.64-80)
Pope, C. (2001) Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women’s decision to seek
prenatal care in southern Arizona. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty,
Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 143-158.
Riska, E. (2002) From Type A man to the hardy man: masculinity and health, Sociology of Health
and Illness, 24(3): 347-358
Robertson, S. (2007) Understanding Men’s Health: Masculinity, Identity and Well-being.
Schoef, B.G. (1998) Inscribing the body politic: women and AIDS in Africa. In: Margaret Lock
and Patricia Kaufert (eds) Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Preess
Underhill-Sem, Y. (2001) “The baby is turning”: child-bearing in Wanigela, Oro Province, Papua
New Guinea. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health.
London, Routledge, 197-212
Valentine, G. (2007) Theorizing and researching intersectionality: a challenge for feminist
geography. The Professional Geographer 59: 10-21
Wainwright, E. (2002) Constant medical supervision: locating reproductive bodies in Victorian
and Edwardian Dundee. Health and Place 9: 163-174
Weston, H.J. (2003) Public honour, private shame and HIV: issues affecting sexual health service
delivery in London’s South Asian communities. Health and Place 9: 109-117
Young, I.M. (2005) Lived body versus gender. In: P.Essed, D.T.Goldberg and A.Kobayashi (eds)
A Companion to Gender Studies, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 102-113
WEEK 9:
BODIES ACROSS BORDERS: MIGRATION AND HEALTH
Migration and health is a large field of study. In this lecture, selected readings are used to further
develop the theme of diversity in health and illness experience, with a particular focus on
interpretive approaches and research using qualitative methodology in studying the implications
for health and health behaviour of the global circulation of people and health knowledge. It raises
the issue of the utility of concepts of culture and ’race’ in explaining health and illness concepts
and practices of established minority groups and more recent migrants through interrogation of
the tension between structural conditions and ‘culture’. Case examples illustrate the complex
relationships among migration, place, culture, social identities and health.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- be able to discuss the links between culture, place and health in analysing the health experiences
of migrants and refugees in the context of international migration
- be able to assess critically key concepts employed in interpreting the health experiences and
behaviour of minority ethnic groups in the global north
Key Readings:
Ahmad, W.I.U. and Bradby, H. (2007) Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and
contexts, Sociology of Health & Illness 29(6): 795-810
Dyck, I. (2006) Travelling tales and migratory meanings: South Asian migrant women talk of
place, health and healing, Social and Cultural Geography 7(1): 1-18
Gatrell. A. C. (2002) Chapter 6 People on the move: Migration and health. Explaining
geographies of health. Geographies of Health: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.
166-191
Gesler, W.M. and Kearns, R.A. (2002) culture/place/health, New York, Routledge, pp. 1-35
Kerner, Caroline, Bailey, Adrian J., Mountz, Alison, Miyares, Ines and Wright, Richard A.
(2001) “Thank God she’s not sick”: health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran
women in northern New Jersey. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies
of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp.127-142.
Supplementary Reading:
Ahmad, W.I.U. (1996) The trouble with culture. In K. Kelleher and S. Hillier (eds) Researching
Cultural Differences in Health. London: Routledge. Chapter 9, 190-219
Dyck, I. (1995) Putting chronic illness in place: women immigrants’ accounts of their health care,
Geoforum, 26, 247-260
Dyck, I. and Dossa, P. (2007) Place, health and home: gender and migration in the constitution of
healthy space, Health & Place 13: 691-701
Dyck, I. and Kearns, R.A. (1995) Transforming the relations of research: towards culturally safe
geographies of health and healing Health & Place 1(3): 137-147
Elliott, S.J. and Gillie, J (1998) Moving experiences: a qualitative analysis of health and
migration, Health & Place, 4: 327-339
Flad, M.M. (1995) Tracing an Irish widow’s journey: immigration and medical care in the midnineteenth century. Geoforum 26(3): 261-272
Gilgen, D., Macusezahl, D., Salis Gross, C., Battegay, E., Flubacher, P., Tanner, M., Weiss, M.G.
and Hatz, C. (2005) Impact of migration on illness experience and help-seeking strategies
of patients from Turkey and Bosnia in primary health care in Basel, Health & Place,
11(3):261-273
Green, G., Bradby, H., Chan, A. and Lee, M. (2005) “We are not completely Westernised”: Dual
medical systems and pathways to health care among Chinese migrant women in England,
Social Science and Medicine
Grove, N.J. and Zwi, A.B. (2006) Our health and theirs: forced migration, othering, and public
health, Social Science and Medicine, 62:1931-1942
Karlsen, S. and Nazroo, J.Y. (2002) Agency and structure: the impact of ethnic identity and
racism on the health of ethnic minority people, Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(1): 1-20
Kelleher, D. and Hillier, S. (1996) (eds) Researching Cultural Differences in Health, London and
New York, Routledge (several chapters are useful in addressing the relationship between
cultural difference and health
Manderson, L., Kirk, M. and Hoban, E. (2001) Walking the talk: research partnerships in
women’s business in Australia. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty, Geographies of
Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 177-194.
Manderson, L. and Allotey, P. (2003) Story-telling, marginality, and community in Australia:
how immigrants position their difference in health care settings, Medical Anthropology
Quarterly, 22, 1-21.
Ong, A. (1995) Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and
cultural citizenship in California, Social Science and Medicine 40(9): 1243-1257
Pope, C. (2001) Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women’s decision to seek
prenatal care in southern Arizona. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty,
Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 143-158.
Tripathi, S. (2001) Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with
reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and
S. McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp.
159-176.
WEEK 10: ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: SPACES OF HEALTH
AND HEALING
This lecture considers the ways in which notions of therapeutic landscape and therapeutic spaces
have informed health geographers’ investigation of the relationship between health and place. It
explores changes in how Gesler’s initial conceptualisation of therapeutic landscape has been
utilised, focusing on a range of spaces that have been examined for their therapeutic qualities and
the relationality of environment and human agency in their construction.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- be familiar with recent developments in extending the notion of therapeutic landscape
- be able to discuss research examples in assessing the tension between structure and agency in
the construction of healthy space
Key Readings:
Gesler, W.M. (2005) Therapeutic landscapes: an evolving theme, Health & Place, 11(4):295-297
Lea, J. (2008) Retreating to nature: rethinking ‘therapeutic landscapes’, Area 40(1): 90-98
Smyth, F. (2005) Medical geography: therapeutic places, spaces and networks, Progress in
Human Geography, 29: 488-495
Supplementary Reading:
Andrews, J.P. and Andrews, G.J. (2003) Life in a secure unit: the rehabilitation of young people
through the use of sport. Social Science and Medicine 56: 531Bondi, L. (2003) A situated practice for (re)situating selves: trainee counsellors and the promise
of counselling. Environment and Planning A, 35: 853-870
Bondi, L. and Fewell, J. (2003) Unlocking the cage door: the spatially of counselling. Social &
Cultural Geography 4(4): 528-546
Bondi, L. (2004) ‘A double-edged sword’? The professionalization of counselling in the United
Kingdom, Health & Place 10:310-328
Conradson, D. (2005) Landscape, care and the relational self: therapeutic encounters in rural
England, Health & Place, 11(4):337-348
Curtis, S. (2004) Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives. London, Sage. Chapter 2
pp28-51
Dyck, I. and Dossa, P. (2007) Place, health and home: gender and migration in the constitution of
healthy space. Health & Place 13 (3): 691-701
Hemming, P. (2007) Renegotiating the primary school: children’s emotional geographies of
sport, exercise and play. Children’s Geographies 5: 353-371
Holloway, J. (2000) Institutional geographies of the new age movement. Geoforum 31:553-566
Joseph, A.E. and Moon, G. (2002) From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial
opportunities and the repositioning of a Victorian private asylum. Social Science and
Medicine 55:2193-2200
Kearns, R.A. and Barnett, J. (1999) Auckland’s Starship Enterprise: place metaphor in a
children’s hospital. In. Allison Williams (ed) Therapeutic Landscapes: The Dynamic
Between Wellness and Place. Lanham, MD, University Press of America
Kearns, R.A. and Collins, D.C.A. (2000) New Zealand children’s health camps: therapeutic
landscapes meet the contract state. Social Science and Medicine 57: 1047-1060
MacKian, S.C. (2008) What the papers say: reading therapeutic landscapes of women’s health
and empowerment in Uganda. Health & Place 14(1): 106-115
Milligan C. and Bingley, A, (2007) 'Therapeutic places or scary spaces? The impact of woodland
on the mental well-being of young adults', Health Place, 13:3, 799-811.
Milligan, C., Gatrell, A. and Bingley, A. (2004) Cultivating health: therapeutic landscapes and
older people in Northern England. Social Science and Medicine 58(9): 1781-1793
Pain, R., Bailey, C., and Mowl, G. (2001) Infant feeding in North East England: contested spaces
of reproduction. Area 33: 261-272
Parr, H. (1999) Mental health and the therapeutic geographies of the city: individual and
collection negotiation. In. Allison Williams (ed) Therapeutic Landscapes: The
Dynamic between Health and Wellness. Lanham, MD, University of America Press
Wakefield, S. and McMullan, C. (2005) Healing places of decline: (re)imagining everyday
landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario, Health & Place 11(4):299-312
Williams, A. (ed|) (1999) Therapeutic Landscapes: The Dynamic Between Wellness and Place.
Lanham, MD, University Press of America
Williams, A. (2002) Changing geographies of care: employing the concept of therapeutic
landscapes as a framework in examining home space. Social Science and Medicine 55:
141-154
Williams, A. (ed) (2007) Therapeutic Landscapes (Geographies of Health), Ashgate.
Wilson, K. (2003) Therapeutic landscapes and First Nations people: an exploration of culture,
health and place. Health & Place 9: 83-93
Wilton, R. and DeVerteuil, G. (2006) Spaces of sobriety/sites of power: examining social model
alcohol recovery programs as therapeutic landscapes. Social Science and Medicine 63: 649661
WEEK 11: CARE AND CAREGIVING IN GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH
The focus of this lecture is care provided in the home, the primary site of ‘community care’ for
the disabled, chronically ill and frail elderly. The readings help to reveal relations of power,
operating through the interlocking scales of the global, nation-state, city and household, within
which care needs and provision are constructed. Experiences of both care receivers and care
givers are considered. While the highly gendered character of care-giving is highlighted, the
impact of economic and social change on who provides care emphasises the interweaving of
gender with class, racialised identities and life course issues in the organization of care practices.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- acquire knowledge about how links between political economy and health care restructuring
shapes the provision and experience of care
- be able to discuss the gendered dimensions of care giving
- consider the contribution of experiential accounts of care receiving and care giving for practice
and policy issues
Key Readings:
Conradson, D. (2003) Geography of care: spaces, practices, experiences, Social and Cultural
Geography 4: 450-454
Milligan, C. (2003) Location or dis-location? Towards a conceptualization of people and place in
the care-giving experience, Social & Cultural Geography, 4(4): 455-470.
Parr, H. (2003) Medical geography: care and caring, Progress in Human Geography 27(2): 212221
Williams, A. and Crooks, V.A. (2008) Introduction: space, place and the geographies of women’s
caregiving work, Gender, Place and Culture 15(3): 243-248
Supplementary Reading:
Barnes, C. (2005) Who cares? In: Crang, P., Cloke, P. and Goodwin, M. (eds) Introducing
Human Geographies (Second edition), London, Arnold, pp.588-601
Chattoo, S. and Ahmad, W.I.U. (2008) The moral economy of selfhood and caring: negotiating
boundaries of personal care as embodied moral practice, Sociology of Health and Illness
30(4): 550-564
Cloutier-Fisher, D. and Joseph, A.E. (2000) Long term care restructuring in rural Ontario:
retrieving community service user and provider narratives, Social Science and Medicine,
50:1037-1045
Dyck, I., Kontos, P, Angus, J., and McKeever, P, (2005) The home as a site for long term care:
meanings and management of bodies and spaces, Health and Place, 11 (2): 173-185.
Ehrenreich and Hothschild
Fisher, B. and Tronto, J. (1990) Towards a feminist theory of caring. In: E.Abel and M.Nelson
(eds) Circles of Care, Work and Identity in Women’s Lives, Albany, pp. 36-54
Gender, Place and Culture (2008) 15(3) Special issue.
Gleeson, B. and Kearns, R.A. (2001) Re-moralising landscapes of care, Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space 19: 61-80
Hallman, B.C. and Joseph, A.E. (1999) Getting there: mapping the gendered geography of
caregiving to elderly relatives. Canadian Journal of Aging 18: 397-414
Joseph, A.E. and Chalmers, A. (1996) Restructuring long-term care and the geography of aging: a
view from rural New Zealand, Social Science and Medicine 42(6): 887-896
Joseph, A.E. and Hallman, B.C. (1998) Over the hill and far away: distance as a barrier to the
provision of assistance to elderly relatives, Social Science and Medicine 46 (6): 63-639.
Kofman, E. (2004) Gendered global migrations: diversity and stratification, International
Feminist Journal of Politics 6(4): 643-668
McKie, L., Bowlby, S. and Gregory, S. (2001) Gender, caring and employment in Britain,
Journal of Social Policy 30(2): 233-258
Meintel, D., Fortin, S. and Cognett, M. (2006) On the road and on their own: autonomy and
giving in home health care in Quebec, Gender, Place and Culture 13(5): 563-580
Milligan, C. (2000) ‘Bearing the burden’: towards a restructured geography of caring, Area,
32(1): 49-58
Milligan, C. (2006) Caring for older people in the 21st century: notes from a small island, Health
& Place 12(3): 320-331
Parr, H. and Philo, C. (2003) Rural mental health and social geographies of caring, Social and
Cultural Geography 4: 471-488
Patel, N. (1993) Healthy margins: black elders’ care – models, policies and prospects. In: W.I.U.
Ahmad (ed) ‘Race’ and Health in Contemporary Britain, Buckingham and Philadelphia,
Open University Press pp. 114-134
Popke, J.(2006) Geography and ethics: everyday mediations through care and consumption,
Progress in Human Geography 30(4): 504-512
Robson, E. (2000) Invisible carers: young people in Zimbabwe’s home-based health care, Area
32: 59-70
Robson, E., Ansell, N. Huber, U.S., Gould, W.T.S. and van Blerk, L. (2006) Young caregivers in
the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, Population, Space and
Place 12: 93-111
Social & Cultural Geography (2003) Special Issue: Geographers of Care 4(4)
Skinner, M.W. (2008) Voluntarism and long-term care in the countryside: the paradox of a
threadbare sector. The Canadian Geographer 52: 188-203
Twigg, J. (1999) The spatial ordering of care: public and private in bathing support in the home,
Sociology of Health and Illness 21(4):381-400
Wiles, J. (2003) Daily geographies of caregivers: mobility, routine, scale, Social Science and
Medicine, 57(7): 1307-1325
Williams, A. (2001) Home care restructuring at work. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S.
McLafferty, Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 108126
WEEK 12 : BODIES, LABOUR PROCESSES AND HEALTH
This lecture explores the impact of work on health, conceptualising the workplace as a landscape
of risk. It examines interconnections between political economy and the body, exploring how
economic processes become embodied in health experience in particular places. Power relations
around gendered, racialised and classed bodies are seen to play out in unhealthy and ‘broken’
bodies.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
- learn about the ‘scaling’ of work-related health conditions
- be familiar with examples of the influence of gender on workplace health
Readings:
Herod, A. and Aguiar, L.L.M. (2006) Introduction: ethnographies of the cleaning body, Antipode
38(3):530-533
Glassman, Jim (2001) Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial
periphery: the case of Northern Thailand. In: I. Dyck, N.D. Lewis, and S. McLafferty,
Geographies of Women’s Health, London and New York, Routledge pp. 61-87
Leslie, D. and Butz, L. (1998) “GM suicide”: flexibility, space, and the injured body, Economic
Geography, 74, 360-378.
Panelli, RA. And Gallagher, L.M. (2003) “It’s your whole way of life really”: negotiating work,
health and gender. Health and Place, 9: 95-105
Supplementary Reading:
Antipode 38(3) Special Issue; Section 2 articles
Guelke, J. K. (2003) Road-kill on the information highway: repetitive sprain injury in the
academy. Canadian Geographer 47 (4): 386-399.
Hartley, M., Popay, J. and Plewis, I. (2008) Domestic conditions, paid employment and women’s
experience of health, Sociology of Health & Illness (virtual special issue)
Pratt, G. in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre (1998) Inscribing work on Filipina
bodies. In: Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile (eds) Places Through the Body. New York,
Routledge pp. 283-304
Price, P.L. (1999) Bodies, faith and inner landscapes: rethinking change form the very local.
Latin American Perspectives 26(3): 37-59
Wolkowitz, C. (2006) Bodies At Work, Sage