Biosocial health geography: New ‘exposomic’ geographies of health and place | Zendy

Lucy Prior | Zendy; David Manley | Zendy; Clive E. Sabel | Zendy

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Biosocial health geography: New ‘exposomic’ geographies of health and place

Author(s) -

Lucy Prior,

David Manley,

Clive E. Sabel

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132518772644

Subject(s) - biosocial theory , temporality , context (archaeology) , health geography , sociology , exposome , sociology of health and illness , human geography , epistemology , geography , environmental ethics , social science , public health , biology , psychology , medicine , health promotion , health care , political science , social psychology , philosophy , law , archaeology , international health , nursing , personality , genetics

Investigating biologically plausible mechanisms for the embodiment of context is a key thoroughfare for progressing health geographies of place. Expanding knowledge of bio-processes such as epigenetics is providing a platform for appreciating the dynamic embedding of social relations in bodies over the lifecourse, and so to tracing the development of health inequalities. By providing a geographic lens on the biosocial, health geographers have key contributions to make regarding the theorisation of place. We put forward the exposome as a holistic framework in which to situate a biosocial health geography, placing ideas of dynamic exposure, plasticity and temporality as central.

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