Cultural and Historical Geography

Health and Disease

The theme has a long-standing interest in historical approaches to medical and health geographies.

This work encompasses in-depth archival, ethnographic and quantitative analysis to understand the geospatial and political contexts of uneven health outcomes, regulatory regimes and the transmission of infectious disease.

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Recent publications

  • Smallman-Raynor, M.R., Cliff, A.D., Ord, J.K., Haggett, P. 2022. A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics. Oxford University Press.
  • Smallman-Raynor, M.R, Cliff, A.D., and The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, 2022. Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020–December 2021, Epidemiology and Infection, 150, E145.
  • Smallman-Raynor, M.R., Cliff, A.D., Stickler, P. 2021. Meningococcal meningitis and coal mining in provincial England: geographical perspectives on a major epidemic, 1929–33. Geographical Analysis, 54, 197-216.
  • Munro, A., Smallman-Raynor, M.R. and Algar, A. 2021. Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69. Social Science and Medicine, 288, 113295.
  • Davies, T. and Mah, A. (Eds). 2020. Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age. Manchester University Press.
 

 

Cultural and Historical Geography

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University of Nottingham
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