Citation

DeVerteuil G. Soc. Sci. Med. 2015; 133: 216-222.

Affiliation

School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3WA, UK. Electronic address: DeVerteuilG@cardiff.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.018

PMID

25617032

Abstract

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.

Language: en