The open body: What can we learn from meteorological medicine?

Please note: this event is for Durham University Staff members only.

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

Prof. Eva Horn (Modern German Literature, Vienna) will present on "The open body: What can we learn from meteorological medicine?".

The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

Abstract
My talk will briefly present a tradition of thinking about the weather and health that today seems to be totally obsolete: meteorological medicine. It stems from a Hippocratic idea of a human body radically open to its atmospheric surroundings. The advent of modern germ theory put an end to this concept. Yet it is worth asking if this idea of a body open to the air shouldn’t be revived today, in order to cope with such phenomena as weather sensitivity, SAD, air pollution or Covid.

The Zoom link will be circulated closer to the event.

Please note that this event is free to attend.

This talk is organised by the Institute for Medical Humanities' Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme, co-led by: Jed Stevenson (Anthropology), Maximilian Hepach (Geography) and Angela Marques Filipe (Sociology).