GEOGRAPHY OF HEALTH and the
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF GEOGRAPHY
RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 5th - 8th January 1998 - Kingston/Guildford
Call for Papers
HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDICAL GEOGRAPHIC TRADITION
The history of medical geography, as a 'tradition' which intersects
many disciplinary boundaries, is in a continual state of flux. An
ever emerging theme within this apparently fluid history is the
relationship between geographers, their medical counterparts and the
promotion of western health models across the globe. Ever since its
initial inception medical geography has relied upon, and contributed
to, acclimatization studies, colonial medicine, tropical medicine, public
health surveillance and so on. As such, it has been explicitely involved
in the sanitization of 'othered' environments through the extension
of national adminstrative power(s). The aim of this session is to reconsider the
historical, and contemporary, impact of medical geography particularly
in light of its claimed 'apolitical' or 'objective' nature. Given a revival of
interest in medicine's role in the imperial project, and the dominant
part played by medical geographers both in the US and in Europe,
this session would hope to reconsider the position of medical
geography as a political, as against apolitical, tool.
Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to the following
convenors by 31st May 1997.
Professor Graham Moon - [log in to unmask]
Tim Brown - [log in to unmask]
University of Portsmouth
School of Social and Historical Studies
Milldam
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3AS
Mike Dorn - [log in to unmask]
University of Kentucky
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