Article ID: CBB001251581

Introduction: Modern Airs, Waters, and Places (2012)

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Bashford, Alison (Author)
Tracy, Sarah W. (Author)


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 86, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 495-514


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue, “Modern Airs, Waters, and Places”
Language: English

Twenty-four centuries have passed since the doctrine of Airs Waters Places was articulated in the Hippocratic corpus, promoting a mutually constitutive vision of humankind and climate. Yet the airs, waters, places tradition has proved remarkably resilient and adaptable as a framing device for relations among nations, natural and human resources, and human health. Redeployed in diverse historical contexts across time, the relationship between climate and humans has evolved from a dependent one in which human constitution and health are determined by climate to an interdependent one in which humans and climate influence one another. Recent scholarship extends the ways in which historians of colonial medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, public health, tropical disease, and race have characterized the climate--human nexus and its attendant politics. Through the exploration of the works of circumnavigators, physicians, physiologists, ecologists, geographers, paleoanthropologists, and economists, contributors to this special issue offer some new and sometimes challenging interpretations of medical climatology: beyond the link between tropical medicine and colonialism, beyond temperate versus tropical, beyond latitude to think of altitude.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Chaplin, Joyce E. (2012) Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Terrestrial Human Body, 1520--1800. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 515-542). unapi

Article Osborne, Michael A.; Fogarty, Richard S. (2012) Medical Climatology in France: The Persistence of Neo-Hippocratic Ideas in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 543-563). unapi

Article Livingstone, David N. (2012) Changing Climate, Human Evolution, and the Revival of Environmental Determinism. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 564-595). unapi

Article Bashford, Alison (2012) Anticolonial Climates: Physiology, Ecology, and Global Population, 1920s--1950s. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 596-626). unapi

Article Tracy, Sarah W. (2012) The Physiology of Extremes: Ancel Keys and the International High Altitude Expedition of 1935. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 627-660). unapi

Article Rosenberg, Charles E. (2012) Epilogue: Airs, Waters, Places. A Status Report. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 661-670). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Black, Brian C.
Kim Walker
Edward Armston-Sheret
Jan J. Boersma
Keck, Frédéric
Cagle, Hugh
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Environmental hygiene; Human ecology
Colonialism
Tropical medicine
Climate and climatology
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Portugal
Tropics
Atlantic world
Hong Kong
Lisbon (Portugal)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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