[Medical geography].

August Hirsch: as critic of, and contributor to, geographical medicine and medical geography.

Of all the nineteenth-century authors who examined the relationships between disease and geography, August Hirsch (1817-1894) was probably the most respected in his time, and is the best remembered today. During his career he was first a critic of, and then a contributor to, the literature on geographical medicine and medical geography. In the process he conceptualized the nature and scope of t...

[Keeping an eye on Brazil: medical geography and Alphonse Rendu's journey].

This article emphasizes the important role Natural History has played in the production of medical knowledge from the end of the eighteenth century on. It also tries to clarify the strategic position Brazilian empire came to have in the nineteenth century in relation with etiologically and environmentally oriented research programs under the patronage of Medical Geography. The analysis of the F...

Update: spatial aspects of epidemiology: the interface with medical geography.

Medical geography and epidemiology share the common goal of understanding disease processes and improving methods of health interventions. While they share a common history, the fields have diverged and developed different, often complementary, approaches to the same types of problems. Medical geography differs from epidemiology in its underlying focus on applying the concepts and methods of ge...

Genetics: A New Landscape for Medical Geography.

The emergence and re-emergence of human pathogens resistant to medical treatment will present a challenge to the international public health community in the coming decades. Geography is uniquely positioned to examine the progressive evolution of pathogens across space and through time, and to link molecular change to interactions between population and environmental drivers. Landscape as an or...

Humboldtian medicine.

Medical geography-the study of the global distribution of human diseases as a function of environmental conditions-was a largely nineteenth-century preoccupation. It incorporated the earlier and contemporaneously continuing interest of medical topography -the description of the medical conditions of particular places. Victorian medical geographers cited J F Cartheuser's De morbis endemiis libel...

A geography of nineteenth-century Britain