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Medical Geography 505 geography, or only that the subdiscipline will Paul 1985, 399). He completely ignores the importance of biological aspects of disease cau- be incomplete without the new direction he sation but emphasizes the social context of suggests in his article. Nevertheless, it is true health and disease. His medical geography is that Kearns provides uncommon insights in centered on disease and delivery of health care contemporary medical geography. (Kearns 1993, 145). Disease ecology does not address health care delivery. Bimal Kanti Paul Kansas State University The geography of health care, one of the two approaches to the traditional medical ge- ography, also differs from the second stream of Literature Cited Kearns’s post-medical geography. The former Fellmann, J., A. Getis, and J. Getis. 1992. Human deals with the spatial aspects of “health-care Geography: Landscape of Human Activities. planning, health-seeking behavior, and health Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown. service provision” (Paul 1985, 401), while the Kearns, R. A. 1993. Place and health: Toward a latter seems to focus on the dynamics between reformed medical geography. The Professional Ge- health and place (Kearns 1993, 145). Kearns’s ographer 45:13947. geography of health is more specialized. He McGlashan, N. 1977. A note