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Nicolas Vonarx

    Recherche En Soins Infirmiers
    |May 19, 2025
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    Environmental factors are crucial in health sciences, but historical views focused on material and topographic aspects. This approach overlooks social and sensory dimensions, limiting our understanding of environment-health links.

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    Area of Science:

    • Environmental health
    • History of medicine
    • Public health

    Background:

    • The concept of environment is widely recognized in health sciences.
    • Historical research demonstrates established links between environment and health in medicine, nursing, and public health.
    • Previous studies have explored the relationship between environmental factors and health outcomes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the historical development of perspectives on environment-health links.
    • To examine the evolution of conceptualizations of the environment in health sciences.
    • To identify how dominant environmental perspectives may obscure crucial aspects of the environment-health relationship.

    Main Methods:

    • Historical analysis of medical theories from Hippocrates to the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • Tracing the influence of aerist medical theories and urban medicine.
    • Examining the hygienist movement and its conceptualization of the environment.

    Main Results:

    • The historical construction of environment-health links reveals a dominant materialist and topographic perspective.
    • This perspective, rooted in ancient Greek medicine and 18th/19th-century hygiene, shaped knowledge and interventions.
    • The focus on physical and geographical aspects has been a consistent theme.

    Conclusions:

    • The traditional materialist and topographic view of the environment limits a comprehensive understanding of health.
    • This perspective neglects significant social, political, aesthetic, and sensory dimensions of the environment.
    • A broader conceptualization is needed to fully grasp the complex environment-health nexus.