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Health and Disease (2007)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2007). Health and Disease. In I. Douglas, R. Huggett, & C. Perkins (Eds.), Companion encyclopaedia of geography : from local to global (157-168). Routledge

Health and disease display uneven spatial patterns at all scales: between geo-political areas of the world, between countries, between sub-national units and within sub-national units. Health viewed as an outcome serves as a key indicator in assessme... Read More about Health and Disease.

Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda (2007)
Journal Article
Fleuret, S., & Atkinson, S. (2007). Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda. New Zealand Geographer, 63(2), 106-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00093.x

This paper explores different conceptual and policy spaces of wellbeing. The increasing use of wellbeing in contemporary health debates affords geographers of health new arena in which to explore the processes that promote, remedy or regenerate healt... Read More about Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda.

Art in Hospital Spaces: the Role of Hospitals in an Aestheticised Society (2007)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, R. (2007). Art in Hospital Spaces: the Role of Hospitals in an Aestheticised Society. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 13(1), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630701201962

There is a keen interest in hospital design in the UK fuelled by the largest hospital building programme ever undertaken within the NHS. Architects and NHS planners are gaining advice and inspiration from the growing evidence-based design movement. P... Read More about Art in Hospital Spaces: the Role of Hospitals in an Aestheticised Society.

Telling talking: discourse and practice in context (2007)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2007). Telling talking: discourse and practice in context. Critical Policy Studies, 1(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2007.9518518

The paper explores the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding the unevenness of policy implementation. This aim is addressed through three questions regarding the relationship of discourse to actors and places: Do discourses m... Read More about Telling talking: discourse and practice in context.

Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions (2007)
Book
Downie, R., & Macnaughton, R. (2007). Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions. Routledge-Cavendish. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945025

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation. Illustrating some humanistic ways of understandi... Read More about Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions.