This module focuses on the study of health and biomedicine and prompts you to engage critically with the social and spatial unevenness of health and illness and with wider concerns for issues of inequality, inequity, and justice. 

Throughout the module you will explore a range of topics from across countries in the global North and South, and consider them through different conceptual and theoretical lenses. 

The module pays particular attention to the power structures which shape biomedicine, to activist campaigns to shape health justice, as well as on how intersecting questions of class, poverty, age, gender, race, dis/ability, and sexuality combine to shape people's experiences of health and ill-health. 

As importantly, the module also considers how social, economic, and political processes and practices act to disrupt as well as to facilitate people's access to health care and how such socio-natural relations are shaped by such fundamental geographical concerns as place and space.