An ill wind: the Foehn in Leukerbad and beyond

Strauss, Sarah

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00406.x

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“…The factor of key importance here may be the drop in atmospheric pressure, since onset of halny is determined by co-occurrence of high pressure on the southern side and low pressure on the northern side of the Tatra mountains. Other published studies confirm that changes in atmospheric pressure produce adverse effects in the human body, possibly also leading to cardiac incidents [33][34][35][36]. However, our study did not demonstrate statistically significant correlations between cardiac events and pressure, which may result from the short period of the observations.…”

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Impact of Foehn Wind and Related Environmental Variables on the Incidence of Cardiac Events

Maciejczak

Guzik

Wolan-Nieroda

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In Poland there is no data related to the impact of halny wind and the related environmental variables on the incidence of cardiac events. We decided to investigate the relationship between this weather phenomenon, as well as the related environmental variables, and the incidence of cardiac events in the population of southern Poland, a region affected by this type of wind. We also decided to determine whether the environmental changes coincide with or predate the event examined. We analysed data related to 465 patients admitted to the cardiology ward in a large regional hospital during twelve months of 2011 due to acute myocardial infarction. All the patients in the study group lived in areas affected by halny wind and at the time of the event were staying in those areas. The frequency of admissions on halny days did not differ significantly from the admissions on the remaining days of the year (p = 0.496). No statistically significant differences were found between the number of admissions on halny days and on the remaining days during halny months (p = 0.084). We have identified a difference in the number of admissions between days with no halny and days immediately preceding onset of halny (p = 0.001). However, no effects of the related environmental variables have been observed in the incidence of cardiac events (p = 0.866, F = 0.37). On the days with halny wind, incidence of cardiac events is similar to that on the remaining days of the year.

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“…Such sensitivity may result from the changes in the electric field of the atmosphere, preceding arrival of a weather front [30][31][32]. It has also been reported that changes in atmospheric pressure produce adverse effects in the human body, possibly also leading to cardiac incidents [33][34][35][36].…”

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Impact of Foehn Wind and Related Environmental Variables on the Incidence of Cardiac Events

Maciejczak

Guzik

Wolan-Nieroda

et al. 2020

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“…People across the globe know and care a lot about the weather. Even in urban and postindustrial societies, where the direct dependency on natural resources is low, many people make the weather responsible for their embodied, physical, and mental well‐being (Strauss ). The saliency people attribute to the weather, and the increasing dominance of technologically driven scientific explanations for natural phenomena, make it relevant to ask when similar observations of the weather by scientists and nonscientists turn into different worlds.…”

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The Life of Winds: Knowing the Namibian Weather from Someplace and from Noplace

Schnegg

2019

American Anthropologist

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This article brings the two questions, how and what we know, into a productive dialog to explain the difference between indigenous and scientific environmental knowledge. In the case I explore, scientists and Damara pastoralists ( ǂnūkhoen) both relate the arrival of the rains in arid Namibia to the interplay between two winds.However, when it comes to explaining those observations, their accounts could hardly be more different. While Indigenous people understand the arrival of the rains as a play between loving and caring winds, scientists recognize them as a consequence of a shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Building on Heidegger's phenomenology, I explore the relationship between the knower and the known. My main theoretical intervention is to show that Damara people and scientists have distinct ways of encountering the world: from someplace and from noplace. In those encounters, the weather is either enmeshed in forms of use in everyday skilled activity for rural pastoralists, or enframed by technology for scientists. By encountering the weather from someplace and from noplace, the world turns into a different place for each. The engagement with these weather worlds shows how ways of knowing the environment can be multiple, but they are not mutually exclusive. [Indigenous knowledge, weather, phenomenology, ontology, Heidegger] RESUMEN Este artículo coloca las dos preguntas, cómo y qué sabemos, en un diálogo productivo para explicar la diferencia entre conocimiento ambiental científico e indígena. En el caso que exploro, científicos y pastoralistas damara ( ǂnūkhoen) ambos relacionan la llegada de las lluvias en laárida Namibia a la interacción entre dos vientos.Sin embargo, cuando se trata de explicar esas observaciones, sus versiones difícilmente podrían ser más diferentes.Mientras los Indígenas entienden la llegada de las lluvias como un juego entre vientos amorosos y cuidadosos, los científicos los reconocen como una consecuencia de un cambio de la Zona de Convergencia Intertropical. Basado en la fenomenología de Heidegger, exploro la relación entre el conocedor y lo conocido. Mi intervención teórica principal es para mostrar que los damara y los científicos tienen distintas formas de encuentro con el mundo: desde algún lugar y desde no lugar. En esos encuentros, las condiciones climáticas están o bien involucradas en formas de uso en la actividad calificada cotidiana para pastoralistas rurales, o enmarcadas por la tecnología para los científicos.Al encontrar condiciones climáticas desde algún lugar y desde no lugar, el mundo se convierte en un lugar diferente para cada uno. El envolvimiento con estos mundos de condiciones climáticas muestra cómo formas de saber sobre el ambiente pueden ser múltiples, pero no exclusivas mutuamente. [conocimiento Indígena, condiciones climáticas, fenomenología, ontología, Heidegger] ǃKHŌǃNAMIS Nē xoaǃâs ge |gam dîra, mâti tsî ǁkhāti tare-e da a ǂan ti hâra,ûitsama ǁgamǁares ǃnâ |khī-ū, tsî ǁnā |gaus ai ǃkharagagusib hîa ǃhaoǃnāsi ǂans tsîôaǃnâ ǂans tsîr...

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“…Since then, a myriad of statistical analyses have confirmed a positive relationship between weather parameters and mental health. These include increased admissions to mental hospitals of people with existing mental health conditions (Hansen et al, 2008) and bouts of 'nervous unrest' and depression associated with a certain downslope wind in the mountainous regions of southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria (Strauss, 2007). Studies dating back to the 1970s and 1980s reported positive associations between low barometric pressure and suicide rates (Sanborn et al, 1970) and between air pollution and increased diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychiatric emergency visits (Briere and Downes, 1983).…”

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‘This weather always gets me down’: A psychosocial perspective on mental illness

Baur

2019

Health (London)

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Since antiquity, attempts to conceptualise the aetiology of mental illness have included social constructionist, biomedical, and psychosocial theories. The change of these concepts over the centuries is reflected in therapeutic approaches as well as the location, layout and interior design of psychiatric institutions. This article focuses on the genealogy of one of these concepts-the proposed link between meteorological parameters, specifically air and sun, and mental illness. Based on detailed archival materials, including administrative records, medical notes and correspondence as well as oral histories, relating to the Devon County Mental Hospital near Exeter (UK), it traces this link over time within and beyond the medical community to the extent that it served as pretext for underlying social causes of the illness. In doing so, this article makes an empirical contribution to geographical perspectives on the construction of psychiatric institutions throughout history while also advancing such work in theoretical terms by drawing attention to the shifts in medical and lay conceptualisations of mental illness.

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An ill wind: the Foehn in Leukerbad and beyond

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Impact of Foehn Wind and Related Environmental Variables on the Incidence of Cardiac Events

Impact of Foehn Wind and Related Environmental Variables on the Incidence of Cardiac Events

The Life of Winds: Knowing the Namibian Weather from Someplace and from Noplace

‘This weather always gets me down’: A psychosocial perspective on mental illness

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