In this paper, we reflect on the positioning of health geography within the wider academic landscapes of geography and health-related research. Drawing on examples from a number of countries, we consider the extent to which a ‘new geography of health’ has emerged in recent years. We structure our discussion around the themes of place, theoretical engagement and critical relevancy. Changes withi...

Analysis of Movement Data Somayeh Dodge, Robert Weibel, Sean C Ahearn, Maike Buchin, Jennifer A. Miller Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland Department of Geography, City University of New York – Hunter College, New York, USA Faculty of Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germa...

Within the debate between medical and health geographers there are often calls for methodological and philosophical conciliation. The purpose of this paper is to detail some of the epistemological difficulties in ever achieving that aim. We do so by offering a foundational scientific analysis of home death in Washington State, and then turning to a postmedical deconstruction of that scholarship...

Glossary Affect Emotional component of psychological states including mood, stress, preference, and attitude. Cognitive Map Spatial and nonspatial knowledge about places stored in the mind. Cognitive Regions Regions in the mind, used by people informally to organize their understanding of the Earth surface. Dead Reckoning Updating orientation by calculating or inferring a new location or headin...

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The aim of this study is to investigate the archaeological finds to enlighten the medical methods of treatments and operations applied in Balkans during Roman Period. Some independent local and regional find groups, taken from existing publications will be grouped together and a holistic point-of-view will be taken against medicine in Balkan Geography during Roman Period. Due to basic differenc...

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...

The increasingly widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GISystems, widely known as GIS) has meant that a version of ‘geography’ has been exported to many other disciplines and walks of life where this technology has been found to be useful. As an undergraduate, one of us read Applied Geography by Dudley Stamp (Stamp, 1960). It is full of ideas and examples of the applications of ge...