Bashford, Alison (Author)
Tracy, Sarah W. (Author)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 86, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 495-514
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.
...MoreArticle Chaplin, Joyce E. (2012) Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Terrestrial Human Body, 1520--1800. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 515-542).
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).
Article Livingstone, David N. (2012) Changing Climate, Human Evolution, and the Revival of Environmental Determinism. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 564-595).
Article Bashford, Alison (2012) Anticolonial Climates: Physiology, Ecology, and Global Population, 1920s--1950s. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 596-626).
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).
Article Rosenberg, Charles E. (2012) Epilogue: Airs, Waters, Places. A Status Report. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 661-670).
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