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‘Hopeful adaptation’ in health geographies: Seeking health and wellbeing in times of adversity

Abstract

Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying …

Authors

Power A; Bell SL; Kyle RG; Andrews GJ

Journal

Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 231, , pp. 1–5

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

June 2019

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.021

ISSN

0277-9536