Confronting the Climate

British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine

AvV. Jankovic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-17
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:429 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Antal sidor:229
Upplaga:2010
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230104754

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Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

VLADIMIR JANKOVIC Wellcome Research Lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.

Recensioner i media

'...fascinating book...overall this is an original and informative addition to the historical literature on health and environment.' - Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University, Social History of Medicine 'Thought-provoking By showing the extensive links between ideas of bodies, comfort, risk, and moral behavior, Jankovic has ensured a more complicated discussion of modern environmental thought.' - The History of Science Society