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...

allama qutb al-din shirazi, is one of the elders and luminaries of iran and the islamic world and one of the great characters in the history of science in the world. despite of the popularity of allameh qutb al-din in medicine, he had reached to a degree of scientific development in different fields of science, literature, art and even folk art that he can be cited as an expert in that field. a...

background: as geographic science discusses the analysis of environment, human beings and their mutual relations, thus the field of medical geography consists of being inspired from the relations between these two factors, analyzing environmental factors, their identification them and the state of their effects on human health, as well as determining the location of these factors. some hazards ...

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...

in research on the history of medicine, less attention is paid to the subject of historical geography . considering the importance of this subject in the history of science, this paper discusses one of the most important science centers in the world. this outstanding medical research center was located in gorganch city, chorasmia area, in the eastern part of the islamic. chorasmia medical schoo...

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...

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...

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...