Screen LibraryEnvironment, health and history
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230233119. |
| Carrier Form: | 320 p. |
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9780230233119 9780230347557 : 023034755X : |
| CLC: | R12 |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Preface-- A.Haines Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Environment, Health and History-- V.Berridge & M.Gorsky Housing and Health in Early Modern London-- V.Harding Environment and Disease in Ireland-- C.Hamlin The Handbuch der Hygiene -- A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?-- D.Schott Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment-- S.Carter Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918-1950-- J.Adams Rethinking the Post War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the Briti |