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Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1995
Abstract A ‘Teaching Medical Geography’ workshop was held at the 1994 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), co‐sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health, Environment and Development.
Stephen A. Matthews, Mark Rosenberg
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Abstract A ‘Teaching Medical Geography’ workshop was held at the 1994 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), co‐sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health, Environment and Development.
Stephen A. Matthews, Mark Rosenberg
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2004
Medical geographers employ geographical concepts and techniques to study issues related to disease and health. In its early stages of development as a distinct geographic subdiscipline, from the 1950s and into the 1980s, medical geography focused on disease ecology and health-care delivery as topics and spatial analysis as technique.
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Medical geographers employ geographical concepts and techniques to study issues related to disease and health. In its early stages of development as a distinct geographic subdiscipline, from the 1950s and into the 1980s, medical geography focused on disease ecology and health-care delivery as topics and spatial analysis as technique.
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‘Scurvy’ Lind's medical geography
Social Science & Medicine, 1991The name James Lind is not one usually associated with medical geography. Yet Lind's book, An Essay on the Incidence of Diseases in Hot Climates, written in 1768, is of great importance in the development of medical geography. When Finke wrote his medical geography a quarter of a century later he quoted extensively from Lind.
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Daniel Drake's medical geography
Social Science & Medicine, 1996Daniel Drake's two volume study, Principal Diseases of the Interior of North America (1850-1854), is examined in the context of the medical geographical and geographical medical literature of the period. His work covers an in-depth examination of the-geography of the interior of the continent as it relates to disease occurrence.
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International communication and medical geography
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1977Learmonth’s recent communication explaining the termination of the International Geographical Union Commission on Medical Geography marked the end of an era as regards the international communication of medico-geographic research findings, concepts, and potential applications [l]. Founded in 1949 by Jacques May, Maximillien Sorre and Arthur Geddes, the
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Praxis, 2007
Hippocrates already noted that geographical factors such as climate, relief, geology but also settlement patterns had influenced the distribution of diseases. The task of medical geography is to investigate the associations between geographical factors and diseases. Thereby, geographic techniques and concepts are applied on health problems.
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Hippocrates already noted that geographical factors such as climate, relief, geology but also settlement patterns had influenced the distribution of diseases. The task of medical geography is to investigate the associations between geographical factors and diseases. Thereby, geographic techniques and concepts are applied on health problems.
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Replacing positivism in medical geography
Social Science & Medicine, 2005Revisiting debates about philosophical approaches in medical geography suggests that logical positivism may have been prematurely discarded. An analysis of authoritative texts in medical geography and their sources in human geography shows that logical positivism has been conflated with Comtean positivism, science, empiricism, quantification, science ...
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Classroom films for medical geography
Social Science & Medicine. Part D: Medical Geography, 1981Abstract A number of available films on disease ecology and health care delivery are useful for leaching medical geography. Twenty-five films are described and rental information provided here.
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