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Environment, Health and History

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  1. Virginia Berridge

    1. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

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  2. Martin Gorsky

    1. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Environment, Health and History

    • Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky
    Pages 1-22

  3. Housing and Health in Early Modern London

    • Vanessa Harding
    Pages 23-44

  4. Environment and Disease in Ireland

    • Christopher Hamlin
    Pages 45-68

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

    • Dieter Schott
    Pages 69-93

  6. Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment

    • Simon Carter
    Pages 94-112

  7. Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918–50

    • Jane M. Adams
    Pages 113-132

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

    • Sabine Clarke
    Pages 133-153

  9. ‘Health Crusades’: Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930–60

    • Christian Bonah
    Pages 154-177

  10. Cross-Nationalising the History of Industrial Hazard

    • Christopher C. Sellers
    Pages 178-205

  11. The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors

    • Christian Warren
    Pages 206-223

  12. 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

    • Lisa Rumiel
    Pages 224-243

  13. The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics

    • Ingar Palmlund
    Pages 244-269

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

    • Paul Wilkinson
    Pages 270-273

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 274-297
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

    Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky

About the editors

JANE ADAMS Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UK VIRGINIA BERRIDGE Professor of History and Head of the Centre for History in Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK CHRISTIAN BONAH Professor of the History of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Strasbourg, France SIMON CARTER Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, The Open University, UK SABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History, the University of York, UK MARTIN GORSKY Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Public Health and Health Systems, Centre for History in Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK SIR ANDY HAINES Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN Professor of History and of History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Notre Dame, USA VANESSA HARDING Professor of London History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK INGAR PALMLUND Independent Scholar, formerly affiliated to the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK LISA RUMIEL SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada DIETER SCHOTT Professor of Modern History, the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany CHRISTOPHER SELLERS Associate Professor of History, Stony Brook University, USA CHRISTIAN WARREN Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College, USA PAUL WILKINSON Reader in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

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