The Geographical Turn in Contemporary Health Professional Research: Contexts, Motivators, Current and Emerging Perspectives

摘要: This chapter reviews the contemporary geographical study of health care work. Initially it examines key ‘on ground’ transformations in and which are fundamentally their making, form consequences; have demanded a research perspective be taken as well-aligned vantage point with to report understand them. These include increasing spatial diffusion professionals roles; transition settings; role technologies overcoming limitations; emphasis on community social model health; embeddedness scales concepts policy administration, globalization work roles responsibilities. The then moves examine how number academic developments—including medical/health geography—have at same time coalesced provide an additional set motivations opportunities for scholarship Finally, describes main theoretical traditions approaches constituted ‘geographies work’ current multidisciplinary enterprise field—including science, political economy, constructionist/humanist, most recently non-representational theory, providing examples recent empirical has been framed by each.