What is it about the weather? Measuring “meteorosensitivity”

The Measurement Lab is pleased to invite you to this hybrid seminar featuring Dr Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Assistant Professor (Research) in Geography, Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow, and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities.

What is it about the weather that impacts human health and well-being? How might these impacts be measured? I will present some early ideas and responses to both these questions, engaging with the long history of ideas around weather (and the human body) as well as the more recent history of research in medical meteorology and human biometeorology. Central to my argument will be how attempts at measurement, at securing weather as a measurable object in order to scientifically assess weather-health impacts, are generative of complicated conceptual problems that foreground the limits of knowledge and experience. “Meteorosensitivity”, the vulnerability or exposure of the mind and body to changes in weather, keeps these problems in focus.