Journal article
‘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