In Pursuit of Healthy Environments
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-25905-1 (ISBN)
The book written by scholars from architecture, cultural anthropology, history, Indigenous Studies, media studies and sociology will be of interest to a reader interested in the historical roots of present health-related environmental issues. It discusses the spatiality and materiality of the conceptions of health and the practices of nurture in colonial and post-colonial environments and shows how greatly indigenous and colonial mindsets have differed during the last 300 years.
It also investigates how certain environments have become labelled as healthy and life-preserving while others stigmatized by death and disease and how fluctuating these notions can be. Finally, it analyses the materialities and immaterialities, as well as the transgenerational and transboundary characters of environmental and medical knowledge.
Esa Ruuskanen is a Senior Research Fellow and the person responsible for the minor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include environmental history of Western and Northern European peatlands, energy histories, and the environment-technology interaction. Heini Hakosalo works as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her major research projects have dealt with Foucauldian historian of medicine and psychiatry, the history of brain sciences in late nineteenth century Europe, the beginnings of women’s medical education in Finland and Sweden, and history of tuberculosis in twentieth century Finland.
Introduction
Part I: Healthy and Unhealthy Environments
1. Crafts and Cleanliness: The Regulation of Noxious Business Activity in English Towns During the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
2. Healthy Nature in a Bottle? The Contested Naturalness of Mineral Water
3. Environmental Anxieties in 1980s Athens: Mediatisation and Politics
4. The Woodland Cure: Tuberculosis Sanatorium Patients’ Perceptions of the Healing Power of Nature
Part II: Colonial Environments and Health
5. From the "Wooden World" to "London Miniature": Charlotte Bristow Browne’s Diary, Nursing and the French and Indian War
6. Geography of Arctic Food: Northern Environment and Sámi Health in Transition, c. 1780–1920
7. Standardized Housing Concepts in the North: Sámi Housing Meets Western Hygienic Norms in Twentieth-Century Finland
8. Health as Living in Tranquility: Dialogues with the Apurinã and Yaminawa in Indigenous Brazilian Amazonia
Part III: Environmental and Medical Knowledges
9. Local Environmental Knowledge, Cultural Go-Betweens and Linnaean Scientists in the Dutch Colonial World
10. Promotion of a Modern Holistic Vision of Hygiene: E. W. Lane's Hygienic Medicine in the British Medical Market, 1850s–1880s
11. From the Local to the Global, from the Environment to the Individual: Epidemiological Knowledge-Production and Changing Notions of Public Health
12. Ultimate and Proximate, Genetic and Environmental: History of the Explanations of Altruism Since the 1960s
Concluding Chapter
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-25905-2 / 0367259052 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-25905-1 / 9780367259051 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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