Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus
Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus
Featuring a review of health geography contributions to the recent ‘voluntary turn’ in the health and social sciences, this paper introduces a theme section comprising five other papers that explore the links among voluntarism, health and place. The introductory paper elucidates the emergence of health voluntarism as a field of study within geography and highlights the crucial difference ‘place’ makes to understanding voluntary activity in the context of health, care and wellbeing. Questions are raised about theoretical, methodological and policy contributions and potential avenues for fulfilling a more inclusive ‘health geographies of voluntarism’ are discussed.
voluntary turn, geographies of voluntarism, health geography, field of study
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Skinner, Mark W.
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Power, Andrew
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January 2011
Skinner, Mark W.
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Power, Andrew
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Skinner, Mark W. and Power, Andrew
(2011)
Voluntarism, health and place: bringing an emerging field into focus.
Health & Place, 17 (1), .
(PMID:20888283)
Abstract
Featuring a review of health geography contributions to the recent ‘voluntary turn’ in the health and social sciences, this paper introduces a theme section comprising five other papers that explore the links among voluntarism, health and place. The introductory paper elucidates the emergence of health voluntarism as a field of study within geography and highlights the crucial difference ‘place’ makes to understanding voluntary activity in the context of health, care and wellbeing. Questions are raised about theoretical, methodological and policy contributions and potential avenues for fulfilling a more inclusive ‘health geographies of voluntarism’ are discussed.
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Published date: January 2011
Keywords:
voluntary turn, geographies of voluntarism, health geography, field of study
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Geography, PHEW – C (Care)
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/194115
ISSN: 1353-8292
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