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Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography

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Despite the fact that violence is a major threat to public health, the term itself is rarely considered as a phenomenon unto itself, and rarely figures explicitly in work by health and medical geographers. In response, I propose a definitionally and conceptually more robust approach to violence using a tripartite frame (interpersonal violence, structural violence, mass intentional violence) and suggest critical interventions through which to apply this more explicit and conceptually more robust approach: violence and embodiment via substance abuse in health geography, and structural violence via mental illness in medical geography.

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  • DeVerteuil, Geoffrey, 2015. "Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 216-222.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:133:y:2015:i:c:p:216-222
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.018
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