Geographers and health and disease studies 1972–80

A conspectus over these years is sought using brief reviews of: McGlashan's edited volume of 1972; Pyle's study of some non-infectious diseases and needed facilities in Chicago (1971); Shannon and Dever on the geography of health care delivery (1974); series of bench-mark reviews edited by Hunter (1974); a special issue of Economic Geography edited by Pyle (1976); Howe's 1977 World Geography of Human Diseases; McGlashan's edited booklet on Australian mortality studies; Learmonth's introductory book on medical geography in 1978; and finally Pyle's much more advanced textbook of 1979. A table is used to compare national approaches to medical geography, and some current topics that may offer pointers to the future are noted.