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Placing geographies of public health
Author(s) -
Brown Tim,
Duncan Craig
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00093
Subject(s) - scholarship , public health , critical geography , perspective (graphical) , human geography , sociology , focus (optics) , political science , social science , environmental ethics , historical geography , medicine , law , philosophy , physics , nursing , optics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Following the move to a ‘post–medical’ geography, a large amount of research has come to focus on public health issues. This paper explores these current geographies of public health and argues for the development of a more critical perspective. In particular, it draws on commentary that has emerged out of debates that have taken place within a body of literature usually identified as the critical ‘new’ public health. The paper goes on to argue that such scholarship offers crucial insights for the production of a critical geography of public health.