The Influence of Maximilien Sorre and Vidal de la Blache in the Medical Geography of Josué de Castro

Authors

  • R. G. Vieites Núcleo de História Ambiental e Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • I. A. Freitas Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

possibilism, Vidal de La Blache, Maximilien Sorre, Medical Geography, Josué de Castro

Abstract

A historical analysis of the geographical thought shows that the association between Geography and Medicine occurs since ancient times having as  background the interface  among subjects as health, environment and space. This essay is an attempt to demonstrate the influences which geographers Vidal de la Blanche and Maximilien Sorre carried out on the Josué de Castro’s (brasilian physician and “geographer”) work. These influences can be verified since the initial Castro’s works concerned with the spacialization of health, works that are still very impregnated with the Vidal’s possibilism and with this geographic school own concepts, until the edition of the books  The geography of Hunger and the Geopolitics of Hunger, in which Sorre’s ecological perspective and contact with other human sciences amplify the critical horizon of Castro’s works.

Author Biographies

R. G. Vieites, Núcleo de História Ambiental e Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro


I. A. Freitas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro




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Vieites, R. G., & Freitas, I. A. (2011). The Influence of Maximilien Sorre and Vidal de la Blache in the Medical Geography of Josué de Castro. Scientia Plena, 5(6). Retrieved from https://scientiaplena.emnuvens.com.br/sp/article/view/633

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Vol. 5 No. 6 (2009): June/Junho 2009

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