Environment Health and History 1st Edition by Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky 0230233112 9780230233119

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ISBN 10: 0230233112 

ISBN 13: 9780230233119

Author: Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky

The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Environment, Health and History

2 Housing and Health in Early Modern London

3 Environment and Disease in Ireland

4 The Handbuch der Hygiene: A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?

5 Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment

6 Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918–50

7 Rethinking the Post-War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the British Colonial Empire

8 ‘Health Crusades’: Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sani

9 Cross-Nationalising the History of Industrial Hazard

10 The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors

11 Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Inter

12 The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International P

13 Epilogue: The Co-Benefits for Health of Meeting Global Environmental Challenges

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