Environment, 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 bringstogether work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations. VIRGINIA BERRIDGE is Professor of History at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health,UK. She has published widely on post 1945 health policy and on public health,focussing on drugs, alcohol and tobacco and on the relationship between evidence and policy. MARTIN GORSKY is Senior Lecturer in History at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. His research interests lie in the history of public health and health services. Among his current research projectsare studies of management of the National Health Service, and his most recentbook was a study of hospital contributory schemes. INDICE: 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' b 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 British Colonial Empire; 'S.Clarke' - Health Crusades': Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930 b 1960; 'C.Bonah - 'Cross-Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard; 'C.C.Sellers - 'The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors; 'C.Warren - 'Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1986 and 1992; 'L.Rumiel' - The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics; 'I.Palmlund - 'Epilogue; 'P.Wilkinson - ' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23311-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés