Presenting health and medical geography

People, places, and change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4707355
AutoresGraham Moon (0000-0002-7256-8397, School of Geography and Environmental Science University of Southampton Southampton UK, autor correspondente), Clive E Sabel (0000-0001-9180-4861, Aarhus University), Clive Sabel (Department of Environmental Science University of Aarhus Roskilde Denmark)
Ano2019
Volume185
Fascículo4
Páginas459-471
Data de publicação2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12319
OpenAlexW2963560494
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas47

Assessments of the development of geography as a discipline, and studies of sub-disciplinary development within geography, have generally focused on the subject matter under study. Consideration has concentrated on topics, theories, methods, and paradigm shifts identified by analyses of published literature. There has been rather less interest in the spatialisation of the practice and performance of the discipline by people and institutions (though there have been exceptions) and equally little attention to the evidence provided by geographical conferences. We address these lacunae in current knowledge through a quantitative study of changing disciplinary endeavour in health geography as evidenced by participation in the International Medical Geography Symposia. For 35 years this biennial meeting has been the flagship conference for health and medical geographers. We have obtained, reviewed, and coded the proceedings of all 17 symposia, analysing the submitted papers by location of symposia, lead authorship, affiliation, and country of authorship. We investigate the globalisation of the sub-discipline and changes in key institutional involvement. Novel network analysis methods are used to identify changing linkages between research centres. What emerges is a complex sub-discipline driven by the changing neoliberal context of higher education and marked by both continuities and discontinuities in its practitioner networks

Economic geography · Geography · Health geography · Health promotion · Human geography · International health · Public health · Data Analysis and Archiving · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Medicine · Nursing