GeoHumanities and Health

292 Pages·2020·7.109 MB·English

by  Sarah Atkinson, Rachel Hunt

Global Perspectives on Health Geography
Sarah Atkinson
Rachel Hunt Editors
GeoHumanities
and Health
Global Perspectives on Health Geography
Series editor
Valorie Crooks, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Global Perspectives on Health Geography showcases cutting-edge health geography
research that addresses pressing, contemporary aspects of the health-place interface.
The bi-directional influence between health and place has been acknowledged for
centuries, and understanding traditional and contemporary aspects of this connection
is at the core of the discipline of health geography. Health geographers, for example,
have: shown the complex ways in which places influence and directly impact our
health; documented how and why we seek specific spaces to improve our wellbeing;
and revealed how policies and practices across multiple scales affect health care
delivery and receipt.
The series publishes a comprehensive portfolio of monographs and edited
volumes that document the latest research in this important discipline. Proposals are
accepted across a broad and ever-developing swath of topics as diverse as the
discipline of health geography itself, including transnational health mobilities,
experiential accounts of health and wellbeing, global-local health policies and
practices, mHealth, environmental health (in)equity, theoretical approaches, and
emerging spatial technologies as they relate to health and health services. Volumes
in this series draw forth new methods, ways of thinking, and approaches to
examining spatial and place-based aspects of health and health care across scales.
They also weave together connections between health geography and other health
and social science disciplines, and in doing so highlight the importance of spatial
thinking.
Dr. Valorie Crooks (Simon Fraser University, [email protected]) is the Series Editor
of Global Perspectives on Health Geography. An author/editor questionnaire and
book proposal form can be obtained from Publishing Editor Zachary Romano
([email protected]).
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15801
Sarah Atkinson • Rachel Hunt
Editors
GeoHumanities and Health
Editors
Sarah Atkinson Rachel Hunt
Department of Geography School of Geosciences
Durham University University of Edinburgh
Durham, UK Edinburgh, UK
ISSN 2522-8005 ISSN 2522-8013 (electronic)
Global Perspectives on Health Geography
ISBN 978-3-030-21405-0 ISBN 978-3-030-21406-7 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7
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Acknowledgements
The project of putting this book together would never have progressed beyond a
passing thought were it not for the energy of Professor Valorie Crooks from Simon
Fraser University in setting up this book series and her enthusiasm and encourage-
ment to take on this collection.
We have benefited from windows of research time in which to get the job done
allowed by our respective universities of Durham and Edinburgh and from the stim-
ulating intellectual environments of Durham’s Institute of Medical Humanities and
Department of Geography and Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. The Durham
Institute of Medical Humanities is supported by the Wellcome Trust grant number
WT209513. We have also enjoyed unstinting support at home, and our thanks go to
David, Doug, Rosie, Merry, and Joe.
We particularly want to thank Sarah de Leeuw for allowing us to publish two
poems from her exciting new collection, Outside America, and Faber and Faber Ltd.
for granting permission for the reproduction of lines from Alice Oswald’s poem,
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile.
Finally, we have enjoyed stellar support throughout the process, from proposal to
publication, from the team at Springer, Zachary Romano, Aaron Schiller,
Silembarasan Panneerselvam and Gopalraj Chitra; it has been a real pleasure to
work with you all.
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Contents
1 GeoHumanities and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rachel Hunt and Sarah Atkinson
Part I Bodies
2 Sensing Health and Wellbeing Through Oral Histories:
The ‘Tip and Run’ Air Attacks on a British Coastal
Town 1939–1944 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Gavin J. Andrews and Viv Wilson
3 Bodies at the Crossroads Between Immigration and Health . . . . . . . 39
Anne-Cécile Hoyez, Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard, and François Lepage
4 Beyond Therapy: Exploring the Potential of Sharing Dance
to Improve Social Inclusion for People Living with Dementia . . . . . . 57
Rachel Herron, Mark Skinner, Pia Kontos, Verena Menec,
and Rachel Bar
5 Critical Places and Emerging Health Matters: Body,
Risk and Spatial Obstacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Kristofer Hansson
6 Sensing Nature: Unravelling Metanarratives of Nature
and Blindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Sarah Bell
Part II Voices
7 Subjectivity, Experience and Evidence: Death Like Milk
on the Doorstep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Hannah Bradby
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8 Borders of Blame: Histories and Geographies
of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, 1980–1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Carla Tsampiras
9 Which Patient Takes Centre Stage? Placing Patient Voices
in Animal Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, and Bentley Crudgington
10 Surviving Homelessness in Melbourne: The Niching of Care. . . . . . . 157
Cameron Duff
11 T ruth or Dare: Women, Politics, and the Symphysiotomy Scandal . . . . 175
Oonagh Walsh
Part III Practice
12 GARTNAVEL: An Experiment in Teaching ‘Asylum Week’ . . . . . . . 193
Cheryl McGeachan and Hester Parr
13 Zones of Dissonance and Deceit: Nuclear Emergency
Planning Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Neil Overy
14 Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced
Ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Michael Koon Boon Tan and Sarah Atkinson
15 Cartographies of Health: From Remote to Intimate Sensing . . . . . . . 261
Ronan Foley
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Contributors
Editors
Sarah Atkinson Durham University, Institute of Medical Humanities, Department

of Geography, Durham, UK
Sarah Atkinson is Professor of Geography and Medical Humanities at Durham
University. Her work engages key concepts shaping contemporary practices of
health and medicine through critical approaches in a humanities-facing social sci-
ence. These include wellbeing, care, physical movement and experience. In addi-
tion, she is Associate Director of the Durham Institute for Medical Humanities and
Associate Editor of the Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities.
Rachel Hunt University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, UK

Rachel Hunt is a Lecturer in GeoHumanities in the School of GeoSciences at the
University of Edinburgh. Her work lies at the intersection of cultural, historical and
rural geographies with a focus upon the self-landscape encounter. Her key research
interests fall into three related areas: cultural geographies of land and landscape,
rural lives and leisure and links between landscape experience and wellbeing.
Poetry
Sarah de Leeuw University of Northern British Columbia, School of Population

and Public Health, Prince George, BC, Canada
An award-winning Creative Writer (poetry/literary non-fiction) and Canada
Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities, Sarah de Leeuw’s activism,
writing, scholarship and teaching focus both on unsettling geographies of power
and on the role of humanities in making biomedical and health sciences more
socially accountable.
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x Contributors
Essays
Gavin  J.  Andrews McMaster University, Department of Health, Aging and

Society, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Gavin J. Andrews is Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at
McMaster University, Canada, with a background in Geography. His empirical
interests include ageing, holistic medicine, healthcare work, fitness, health histories
and popular music. Much of his work is positional and considers the development
and progress of health geography. In recent years, he has become interested in the
potential of post-humanist and non-representational theory to convey the processual
nature and immediacy of health and wellbeing.
Rachel Bar Canada’s National Ballet School and Ryerson University, Toronto,

ON, Canada
Rachel Bar is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School’s Professional
Ballet Program. She danced professionally with the English National Ballet and the
Israel Ballet before pursuing academia. She is currently completing her PhD in
Psychology as a Vanier Scholar, at Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada. Her
research explores the benefits of dance for older adult populations and the utility of
arts-based knowledge translation of health research. She also manages health and
research initiatives at Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) and is part of the team
developing and researching NBS’ dance initiatives for older adults.
Sarah Bell University of Exeter, European Centre for Environment and Human

Health, Exeter, UK
Sarah Bell is a Lecturer in Health Geography, whose research focuses on the
complex intersections between human health, wellbeing and the interlinked physi-
cal, social and cultural environments in which people live, work and move. She has
recently completed a research fellowship, ‘Sensing Nature’ (www.sensing-nature.
com), exploring how people living with varied forms and severities of sight impair-
ment describe their experiences with(in) diverse types of nature through the life
course.
Hannah Bradby Uppsala Universitet, Department of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden

Hannah Bradby was born in Paisley (Scotland) because there was no space in the
maternity hospitals in Glasgow that month. She mostly went to school in Kent
(England), while her father ferry-commuted to work in Normandy (France). She is
currently Professor in the Sociology Department at Uppsala University (Sweden).
Her research was published as a novella Skinfull (Onlywomen Press, 2007) which
included the funny, scandalous and paradoxical stories that could not be included in
an academic monograph. The fictionalised version showed how young women con-
fronted and resolved, or at least survived, the everyday contradictions of diverse
inner-city living. She has also published plenty of empirically justified scholarly
research of the more traditional variety.