Medical Geography in Historical Perspective (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15026669 |
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| Authors | Michael Dorn (0000-0002-1181-8479, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 617-619 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2002.0123 |
| OpenAlex | W2027970701 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Research in the geography of health, disease, and disability has always occupied an ambiguous position within the discipline of geography. Historians of science and medicine have traced the genealogy of medical geography back to the Enlightenment, and medical geographic approaches today inform a wide variety of research endeavors in the social and behavioral sciences. Yet until the 1990s, historians of the discipline of geography neglected this subfield. In their more reflective moments, modern medical geographers imagine themselves to be carrying the torch for an ancient tradition stretching back to Hippocrates; their programmatic statements and reviews, however, maintain that modern medical geographic research originated in the Second World War. It is wonderful, then, to see that they can now turn to works such as Medical Geography in Historical Perspective for a sense of the overall movement and evolution within their field
Cultural geography · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Geography · Health geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Pathology · Perspective (graphical) · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Medicine · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Highly cited | No |
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