Medical geography is an ancient branch of human that has its roots throughout history as ideas and practices. It later developed a scientific methodology took applied path by adopting medical data quantitative analysis to devote attention towards revealing health suffering at the spatial level. objective involvement with medicine systematic intersection in contexts research study.

thought on the subject, to the European Middle Ages characterized here as "The Age of Faith", to the impact of the European voyages of reconnaissance and the neo-Hippocratic reassertions of the eighteenth century. Thereafter Barrett's strategy is to work biographically. Identifying key figures-Hoffman, Lind and especially Finke for the eighteenth century, Boudin, Tschudi and Schweich for the ea...

1 Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2 Department of Ecology and Parasitology, Zoology Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 3 Department of Parasitology, Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center, Medical Faculty, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 4 Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 5 Depa...

Few cases in the history of epidemiology and public health are more famous than John Snow's investigation of a neighborhood cholera outbreak in the St. James, Westminster, area of London in 1854. In this study Snow is assumed to have proven that cholera was water rather than airborne through a methodology that became, and to a great extent remains, central to the science and social science of d...

As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, 'medical humanities' and 'health humanities,' and calls for a supersession of the former by the latter. In this paper, we revisit the conceptual under...

Historians of medicine frequently recount the heroic late-nineteenth-century birth of scientific medicine, commonly characterized by laboratories and bacteriology.' Contemporaries such as William Osler believed that scientific medicine constituted "a new school of medicine", fundamentally different from the pre-scientific sects of the preceeding period.2 Although no one, then or now, has denied...

Relations between geography and health have been recognized since ancient times. Investigation of such relations has been characterized by isolated and scant efforts. This article aims to explore potential links between geography's theoretical and methodological frame of reference and knowledge and interpretation of the population's health. It approaches the antecedents of medical or health-rel...

When in 1857 the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review "endeavoured to give an exposition generally of the principles of Medical Geography", it discussed Adolf Miihry's Die geographischen Verhdltnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundziige der Noso-Geographie (The Geographical Relations of Diseases or, Outlines of NosoGeography) (1856).' When in 1869 the Parisian physician Edouard Carriere (d....