AAG 1999 CALL FOR PAPERS
Geography, Health and Imperialism
Sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group
I am attempting to put together a special session on geography,
imperialism and health to be held at the next Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Please respond to the address below if interested in participating.
Connections between geography, medicine, health and empire have been
increasingly recognized and explored by geographers, medical historians
and others interested in the history of scientific thought. Reflecting a
broader critical analysis of Western knowledge construction that
implicates the "imperial impulse" as influencing and shaping supposedly
rational scientific endeavors, this work has opened rich avenues of
research on the links between empire, health and disease.
The goal of this session is to build on this foundation, exploring ways
in which an explicit engagement with empire can enrich our understanding
of the geography of health and disease.
Potential themes could include:
- colonial histories of health and disease
- tropical medicine
- contested medical knowledges
- geographies of emerging diseases
- medical topographies
- military medicine
- international medical research and funding
- social contexts of scientific medicine/geography
- disease causation theories and the politics of public health
Those wishing to participate should provide the following information:
NAME
AFFILIATION
PROPOSED PAPER TITLE
ABSTRACT (DISK AND HARD COPY)
David Abernathy
Department of Geography
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195.
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