This article charts the rise and fall of medical meteorology in nineteenth-century Denmark, describing how interest in the subject developed, the optimism that sprang from the possibility of having access to accurate meteorological measurements, and the decline in interest as the data failed to support the medical meteorologists’ claims. Within this framework, I also attempt to place the Danish...

In order to understand the medical geography studies by Boudin, we analyze the differences that set him apart from the acclimatization theories defended during that same historical period by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Each one of them represents a paradigmatic position in relation to the problem of acclimatization. To understand the difference between these models, we analyze the concept o...

This article is directed toward health professionals who have a limited background in epidemiology and geography but are interested in medical geography. Although geospatial analysis and the availability of geographic information systems is a growing field, there is little literature available regarding medical geography. Medical geography is a field that incorporates geographical and epidemiol...

As an opening to this volume, we believe that it would be useful for readers to be aware both of the rationale that underpins it and, perhaps a little more unusually, of the process that led to its production; especially the critical role played by the academic reviewers of the original proposal. The former is important because the idea for the volume materialized out of the recognition that de...