Medical geography was an abiding but at times peripheral concern of the medical art in nineteenth-century France. This article reviews selected works of the major medical geographers and examines the conditions of their emergence. Only mildly concerned with the values of cartographic precision, the article lays a foundation for future investigations into the subliminal geography of the medical ...

Maps and map related objects are produced to represent geography. They range from paper maps to virtual installations, delivered using technologies that range from printing (traditional, on-demand and distributed) to the Internet (wired and wireless, desktop-facilitated and mobile). The underpinnings of the design and delivery of these representations are, and have been, linked to developments ...

In my first progress report (Yeung, 2000a) I concluded that a more pluralistic industrial geography in recent years has gone beyond conventional economic issues by incorporating some ‘new’ economic knowledges and by providing good glimpses of alternative worlds of industrial change. This incorporation relates to the introduction of social and cultural understandings of conventional economic iss...