ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by introducing post-structuralism and reviewing how geographers have applied its various elements in developing notions of relational space. It assesses what kinds of relational geographies post-structuralism helped map before reflecting upon the wider influence of post-structuralism within health geography. Post-structuralist geographies of health have, to date, relied more heavily on concepts such as discourse, power/knowledge, biopolitics and governmentality than deconstruction, de-territorialization, and multiplicity. Drawing on such concepts, geographers have decentered geographies of health by turning to discourse as the source of meanings related to health, the discursively and materially constructed body as the place of health experience, and governmentalities as the means by which health is politicized. Scholarship on the representational practices related to health has largely been concerned with discourses that engender meanings about what constitutes a healthy body or a therapeutic place.
