Abstract

Medical topographies: Sources for the evolutionary study of territory and landscape

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  • Society and landscape are linked in such an intimate way and share so many aspects that a parallel analysis is almost inevitable

  • The regular consultation of these sources (which in this paper shows the geographically based aspects of the document prepared by Dr Hernández Briz (1909) Geography or medical topography of the Guadarrama Range Municipal Party of San Lorenzo), has provided access to the singularities that, always focusing on the perspective of human geography, identify territories that have socio-sanitary potential in the mountain region of the inner Iberian Peninsula since the end of the 18th century

  • The educational background of the physicians involved in the making of the medical topography in the whole of the natural sciences, as well as its firm determination to inform the population about the rich and diverse natural spaces of Spain through their fieldwork and scientific dissertations, favoured the idea of nature as a single entity, generated from the association of its elements

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Introduction

Society and landscape are linked in such an intimate way and share so many aspects that a parallel analysis is almost inevitable. To understand the past characteristics of a certain place and society, as is the case in current studies, encourages the use of information sources that require combinations of documentation, references and data from the research action (Chun et al, 2019). In this way, the geographic discipline in many types of research about modelling and landscape analysis has been using different bibliographical, cadastral, and para-cadastral resources, cartographic materials, photographs or literary resurgences; in combination with technologies as the systems of geographical information or Big Data in many studies on modelling and spatial analysis. In recent decades numerous methods of analysis of landscape patterns have been developed and evaluated, based on these data sources, which have illuminated the concept of a geohistorical source

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