On Sep 21 2005, michael bibby wrote:
Chris Philo's review should be of interest, as will his work on the historical geography of asylums in the UK:
Philo, C. (2000) The Birth of the Clinic: an unknown work of medical geography Area 32, 11-19.
Philo, C. (2004) A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860's in England and Wales: The Space Reserved For Insanity (Edwin Mellen Press)
Steve
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Dr Stephen Legg
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
Downing Place
Cambridge
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www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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Having said that, we are now better prepared to
entertain other possibilities of distributions of
disease apart from those which confine them to the
space defined by the human body.
Chris Philo's review should be of interest, as will his work on the historical geography of asylums in the UK:
Philo, C. (2000) The Birth of the Clinic: an unknown work of medical geography Area 32, 11-19.
Philo, C. (2004) A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860's in England and Wales: The Space Reserved For Insanity (Edwin Mellen Press)
Steve
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Dr Stephen Legg
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
Downing Place
Cambridge
CB2 3EN
www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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