Medical Geography in Egypt: As an Interdisciplinary Subfield

[Medical geography].

Hippocrates already noted that geographical factors such as climate, relief, geology but also settlement patterns had influenced the distribution of diseases. The task of medical geography is to investigate the associations between geographical factors and diseases. Thereby, geographic techniques and concepts are applied on health problems. Of particular importance is the mapping of diseases wh...

Medical geography in historical perspective

course of Franco-German history is often clogged with textbook prose and competing topical or chronological conceptions. He displays an annoying penchant for series: two of this, three of that, four of the other, etc. The sometimes blurred relationship between matters small and large is reflected in Bonah's evident indecision about what belongs in the text and what should be relegated to the fo...

Histories of medical geography.

Like would-be claimants arguing over a family inheritance, different disciplines have created different genealogies of medical geography, even as they share an interest in capturing its riches. Over the course of the twentieth century, historians of medicine and geographers have each created their own histories of the relations between health and environment.' Yet for both historians and geogra...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran

Medical Humanities; Study on the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Training in Medical Sciences in Iran

Medical Humanities; Study on the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Training in Medical Sciences in Iran Ahmad Kalateh Sadati 1, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani 2* 1Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran 2Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Abstract Introduction: Medicine and related subjec...