Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies.
Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies.
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全球卫生，地理意向性和偶然地理位置。
DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2016.1140017
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发表时间：
2016-05-03
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Herrick C
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作者：
Herrick C
健康地理学已经从“医学的阴影”下脱颖而出，成为所有分支学科中最具活力的分支学科之一。然而，这一成功也意味着健康研究在这一亚学科领域变得越来越孤立。正如本文所探讨的那样，这代表着全球健康研究可能失去的机会，而全球健康研究已经被人类学和政治学所主导。前者的主要关切是探讨全球卫生的方案意图与其部署的意外或未预料到的后果之间的差距。本文断言，最近的工作，在地理应急提供了重要的概念潜力，研究这一差距。因此，它使用的例子，在博茨瓦纳的酒精税，一个紧急的全球健康目标和工具，探讨如何地理偶然性和紧急的，偶然的地理结果可能有助于对抗地理的普遍趋势，在全球健康的关键研究中被搁置一边。至少，这种干预旨在鼓励地理学家反思如何明确他们的研究与学科之外的全球健康辩论之间的联系。
Health geography has emerged from under the “shadow of the medical” to become one of the most vibrant of all the subdisciplines. Yet, this success has also meant that health research has become increasingly siloed within this subdisciplinary domain. As this article explores, this represents a potential lost opportunity with regard to the study of global health, which has instead come to be dominated by anthropology and political science. Chief among the former's concerns are exploring the gap between the programmatic intentions of global health and the unintended or unanticipated consequences of their deployment. This article asserts that recent work on contingency within geography offers significant conceptual potential for examining this gap. It therefore uses the example of alcohol taxation in Botswana, an emergent global health target and tool, to explore how geographical contingency and the emergent, contingent geographies that result might help counter the prevailing tendency for geography to be side-stepped within critical studies of global health. At the very least, then, this intervention aims to encourage reflection by geographers on how to make explicit the all-too-often implicit links between their research and global health debates located outside the discipline.