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British Medical Bulletin 69:101-114 (2004)
British Medical Bulletin, Vol. 69 © The British Council 2004; all rights reserved

Healthy places, healthy spaces

Danny Dorling

Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Correspondence to: Danny Dorling, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK E-mail: daniel.dorling@sheffield.ac.uk

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   Introduction
 
This chapter looks at the culture of health, disease and mortality from a geographical perspective. However, it does not take the form of a traditional review of the geography of health and the cultural influences of places. That more traditional view involves mapping disease prevalence in various geographical settings and trying to account for observed differences1,2. In that convention, places are often seen as areas demarcated on the surface of a two-dimensional map, they are simplified and, we could argue, stultified. Comparisons of one place with another, according to a selected number of factors, are then made (the modern technology of GIS encourages such disembodied, displaced comparisons). Such comparisons do not do justice to the full complexity of ‘place’3 and the potential meaning of that for health and illness. All too often, place (the meaning and consequences of a place) is reduced to space (its physical location); moreover, any . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Before the beginning
 

   The current world metageography
 

   The future world metageography
 

   Conclusions
 

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