PLACE AND HEALTH - TOWARDS A REFORMED MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY

An engagement with public health concerns and aspects of social theory such as the structure/agency debate is crucial to medical geography. The imperatives underlying this engagement center on place, a geograph ical concept which is prominent in both social theory and recent healt h philosophy. Without detracting from its distinguished heritage, this reformed medical geography will analyze issues such as the consequenc es of illness and health service provision for both personal well-bein g and the collective experience of place by communities.