Ebook: Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine
Author: Vladimir Janković (auth.)
- Tags: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Environment general, Popular Science general, Social History, History of Medicine
- Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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