DeVerteuil Geoffrey
School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3WA, UK.
Soc Sci Med. 2015 May;133:216-22. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.018. Epub 2015 Jan 14.
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.
尽管暴力是对公众健康的重大威胁，但暴力这一术语本身很少被视为一种独立的现象，在健康与医学地理学家的研究中也很少明确出现。作为回应，我提出一种在定义和概念上更为严谨的暴力研究方法，采用一个三方框架（人际暴力、结构性暴力、大规模蓄意暴力），并建议通过关键干预措施来应用这种更明确且概念上更严谨的方法：健康地理学中通过药物滥用探讨暴力与身体体现，医学地理学中通过精神疾病探讨结构性暴力。
