# Medical geography

{
  "id": "S85082940",
  "title": "Medical geography",
  "url": "/topics/S85082940",
  "kind": "topic-directory",
  "aeo_cohort": "topic-directory",
  "provider": "lcsh",
  "revision": "0b9224fedeb041f8",
  "catalogue_revision": "f050b5d4780b1289",
  "numeric_address": "10126414148066756096",
  "address_version": "morton4x16-v1",
  "coordinates": [
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    61440
  ],
  "answer_status": "Directory metadata; local answer requires separate source review",
  "truth_status": "Subject descriptor, not a factual answer or a demonstrated knowledge gap"
}

Works on the practice, history, or conditions of medicine in any particular locality are entered under [Medicine--[local subdivision],] e.g. [Medicine--Germany.]

Works on the occurrence of a particular disease in a locality are entered under the name of the disease subdivided by the name of the place.

Here are entered works on the geographical distribution of diseases, and on pathology in relation to conditions of geography and climate.

Directory metadata is not a factual answer or evidence of a global knowledge gap.

Source: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082940

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