Environment, Health and History

Book Overview

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 British Colonial Empire; S.Clarke Health Crusades': Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930 - 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134931322X
• ISBN13: 9781349313228
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"