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International communication and medical geography
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1977Learmonth’s recent communication explaining the termination of the International Geographical Union Commission on Medical Geography marked the end of an era as regards the international communication of medico-geographic research findings, concepts, and potential applications [l]. Founded in 1949 by Jacques May, Maximillien Sorre and Arthur Geddes, the
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Praxis, 2007
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.
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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.
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Replacing positivism in medical geography
Social Science & Medicine, 2005Revisiting debates about philosophical approaches in medical geography suggests that logical positivism may have been prematurely discarded. An analysis of authoritative texts in medical geography and their sources in human geography shows that logical positivism has been conflated with Comtean positivism, science, empiricism, quantification, science ...
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Classroom films for medical geography
Social Science & Medicine. Part D: Medical Geography, 1981Abstract A number of available films on disease ecology and health care delivery are useful for leaching medical geography. Twenty-five films are described and rental information provided here.
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Medical Geography and Medical Climatology
1987A medicine of the environment emerged on the European continent between 1690 and 1710.2 The leading figures in this formative stage, Bernardino Ramazzini, Giovanni Lancisi, and Friedrich Hoffmann, drew on what they knew of British work in medicine, political arithmetic, and the natural sciences in general, and added distinctive elements of their own ...
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