Virtual medical geographies
Conceptualizing telemedicine and regionalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11949759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm P Cutchin (0000-0002-5407-465X, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-39 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1191/0309132502ph352ra |
| OpenAlex | W2080389078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 42 |
Telemedicine is an innovation that is changing the geography of medical care provision. Regionalization of care is one important type of geographical change resulting from the implementation of telemedicine technology. This paper introduces a range of issues bound up with telemedicine and medical care regionalization and offers a geographical conceptualization of those issues through a synthesis of ideas from several literatures. It begins by providing a background for regionalization and telemedicine. The paper continues by examining the formation of ‘virtual’ regions and the problem of their internal integration and integration with ‘material’ regions of care. A penultimate section argues for the use of regional economic geography and territoriality as contexts for understanding the continued growth and development of telemedicine networks. As part of an overall critical challenge to the protelemedicine bias in the medical care literature, the paper ends by suggesting the development of a normative ethics by medical geographers
Conceptualization · Economic geography · Geography · Health care · Knowledge management · Medical care · Normative · Political science · Public relations · Regional science · Sociology · Telemedicine · Computer Science · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Law · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Nursing · Artificial Intelligence
Cross-border telemedicine abortion
Regional narratives, hidden maps, and storied places
Ethics and geography
Theorizing the digital divide
Geography and the pragmatic tradition
Immersive imaginaries
The need for the “new health geography” in epidemiologic studies of environment and health
The geographies of digital health – Digital therapeutic landscapes and mobilities
The place embeddedness of social care
Medical geography
India.com
Digital Trust
Telecare and older people
Female versus viral
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research
Feminizing risk at a distance
Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery
Human territoriality
Global Shift
Health Service Regionalization in New Brunswick, Canada
Moral Geographies
Contemporary development forces in the nonmetropolitan west
Reconstituting rurality
Towards geographies of cyberspace
On the margins
Restructuring health and rural communities in New Zealand
The end of geography or the explosion of place? Conceptualizing space, place and information technology
Rural Health Organization
Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies
Virtual geography
Ethics in geography
Locality and social representation
Closing rural hospitals in Saskatchewan
Regional Creative Destruction
Geographically-decentralized planning and management in health care
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |