ABSTRACT

This article uses topography to explore connections between environmental and medical perspectives in France between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on examples from rural public hygiene, it addresses how physical and human geography in rural environments affected health and medicine, raising questions about how the topography of a landscape influenced medical responses to the environment. Rather than returning to the idea of the environment as a constraint on possible paths in History, it re-examines the health connotations of the French countryside before turning to the lesser-known terrain of how a locale’s topography informed efforts to regulate the relationship between medicine, society, and nature. The article argues that greater sensitivity to how people were influenced by the nature of local topographies helps historians think in different ways about embodied local geographies and their role in medicine.

摘要

本文使用地形来探索 18 世纪和 20 世纪法国环境和医学观点之间的联系。借鉴农村公共卫生的例子，它解决了农村环境中的自然和人文地理如何影响健康和医学，提出了关于景观地形如何影响医学对环境的反应的问题。它没有回到环境作为历史上可能路径的限制的观念，而是重新审视法国乡村的健康内涵，然后转向鲜为人知的领域，即当地的地形如何为规范医学之间的关系提供信息。 、社会和自然。