Communities, Neighborhoods, and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Place Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. PLACE FOUNDATIONS

   1. Place, History, Memory: Thinking Time Within Place

      • Susan P. Kemp

      Pages 3-19

   2. Formalizing Place in Geographic Information Systems

      • Michael F. Goodchild

      Pages 21-33

   3. Spatial Polygamy and the Heterogeneity of Place: Studying People and Place via Egocentric Methods

      • Stephen A. Matthews

      Pages 35-55

   4. Placing Biology in Breast Cancer Disparities Research

      • Sarah Gehlert, Charles Mininger, Toni M. Cipriano-Steffens

      Pages 57-72

   5. Race, Place, and Health

      • ManChui Leung, David T. Takeuchi

      Pages 73-88

4. Missing Places, Invisible Places

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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5. MISSING PLACES, INVISIBLE PLACES

   1. Morality, Identity, and Mental Health in Rural Ghettos

      • Linda M. Burton, Raymond Garrett-Peters, John Major Eason

      Pages 91-110

   2. The Case of the Missing Mountain: Migration and the Power of Place

      • Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David Naguib Pellow

      Pages 111-126

   3. Moving Beyond Geography: Health Practices and Outcomes Across Time and Place

      • Karen Albright, Grace Chung, Allison De Marco, Joan Yoo

      Pages 127-143

   4. Sacred Place: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the Social Science

      • Jennifer Abe

      Pages 145-162

   5. Dis-placement and Dis-ease: Land, Place, and Health Among American Indians and Alaska Natives

      • Karina L. Walters, Ramona Beltran, David Huh, Teresa Evans-Campbell

      Pages 163-199

6. Justice in Places

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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7. JUSTICE IN PLACES

   1. Structural Violence, Historical Trauma, and Public Health: The Environmental Justice Critique of Contemporary Risk Science and Practice

      • Devon G. Peña

      Pages 203-218

   2. Environmental Justice and the Well-being of Poor Children of Color

      • Michael S. Spencer, Amanda Garratt, Elaine Hockman, Bunyan Bryant, Laura Kohn-Wood

      Pages 219-233

8. Epilogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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9. EPILOGUE

   1. Attachment and Dislocation: African-American Journeys in the USA

      • Carol B. Stack

      Pages 237-247

10. Back Matter

    Pages 249-253

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Place is an important element in understanding health and health care disparities. More that merely a geographic location, place is a socio-ecological force with detectable effects on social life, independent well-being, and health. Despite the general enthusiasm for the study of place and the potential it could have for a better understanding of the distribution of health in different communities, research is at a difficult crossroads because of disagreements in how the construct should be conceptualized and measured. This edited volume incorporates an cross-disciplinary approach to the study of place, in order to come up with a comprehensive and useful definition of place. Topics covered include: Social Inequalities, Historical Definitions of Place, Biology and Place, Rural vs. Urban Places, Racialization of a Place, Migration, Sacred Places, Technological Innovations An understanding of place is essential for health care professionals, as interventions often do not have the same effects in the clinic as they do in varied, naturalistic social settings.

• Demography
• Health Disparities
• Migration
• Population Studies
• Public Health

• Dept. Sociology, Duke University, Durham, USA

  Linda M. Burton

• Dept. Anthropology, Penn State University, University Park, USA

  Stephen A. Matthews

• , Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  ManChui Leung

• Dept. Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Susan P. Kemp, David T. Takeuchi

Linda Burton is a James P. Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Duke University.

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