Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-262) and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Histories of Medical Geography -- CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS -- European National Practices -- 2 The Geographical Imperative in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine -- MICHAEL A OSBORNE -- 3 Differences of Degree: Representations of India in British Medical -- Topography, 1820-c. 1870 -- MARK HARRISON -- 4 The Debate about Acclimatization in the Dutch East Indies, 1840-1860 -- ANNEMARIE DE KNECHT-VAN EEKELEN -- 5 Adolf Mihry (1810-1888): G6ttingen's Humboldtian Medical -- Geographer -- NICOLAAS A RUPKE -- 6 August Hirsch: As Critic of, and Contributor to, Geographical -- Medicine and Medical Geography -- FRANK A BARRETT -- Colonial Discourses -- 7 The Geography of Health and the Making of the American West: -- Arkansas and Missouri, 1800-1860 -- CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS -- 8 Geography, Race and Nation: Remapping "Tropical" Australia, -- 1890-1930 -- WARWICK ANDERSON -- Cartographic Representations -- 9 Humboldtian Representations in Medical Cartography -- NICOLAAS A RUPKE and KAREN E WONDERS -- 10 The first Global Map of the Distribution of Human Diseases: -- Friedrich Schnurrer's 'Charte uber die geographische Ausbreitung der -- Krankheiten', 1827 -- RAINER BROMER -- 11 Heinrich Berghaus's Map of Human Diseases -- JANE R CAMERINI -- Epilogues -- 12 Airs, Waters, Places: Perennial Puzzles of Health and Environment -- ANNE BUTTIMER -- 13 Medical Science before Scientific Medicine: Reflections on the History -- of Medical Geography -- RONALD L NUMBERS -- Index.

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