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Titre A « Sanatorial method » for the good alpine and desert air
Auteur Adrien Guignard
Mir@bel Revue Revue de Géographie Alpine
Numéro vol. 93, no 1, 2005 Agenda
Page 70-79
Résumé anglais As director of the « Sanatorium Populaire » in Leysin and of the Al Hayat sanatorium near Cairo, René Burnand put into practice his « sanatorial method ». Through analysis of Burnand's work, this article suggests viewing the notion of the therapeutic value of air as a product of the disciplinary structures of a sanatorial dis- cursive order. Indeed, medicalised air is shown to have often been associated with a kind of geographical determinism. In addition, this article explores links between Dagognet's thesis on the air cure and certain of Foucault's writings.
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