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Hester Parr

Research Interests

My research includes work on qualitative geographies of mental health, disability and illness. My work has focussed on both urban and rural experiences of community care with an emphasis on service users narratives and experiences. Recently my work has diversified to include how lay populations access and understand health and medical information via virtual space (the Internet). I am the co-editor of Mind and Body Space: New Geographies of Ilness, Impairment and Disability (Routledge, 1999) and my work has been published in numerous international journals including Society and Space, Health and Place, Area, Geographical Review, Ethics, Place and Environment and Social and Cultural Geography.

Recent health-related publications

Parr, H. (2000) Interpreting the 'hidden social geographies' of mental health: inclusion and exclusion in semi-institutional places, Health and Place, 6, pp225-237.

Parr, H. (2002) Diagnosing the body in Medical Geography 1999-2000, Progress in Human Geography, 26, 2, pp240-251.

Parr, H. (2002) New body-geographies: the embodied spaces of health and illness information on the Internet, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 20, p73-95.

Current grants

Parr, H. and Philo, C. (2001-2003) Rural geographies of mental health: experiencing inclusion and exclusion, ESRC.

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