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Author : James C Riley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349186163
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Campaign To Avoid Disease written by James C Riley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-04-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Riley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312002381
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-century Campaign to Avoid Disease written by James C. Riley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Wear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521336390
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Medicine in Society written by Andrew Wear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesises, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this 'new social history' of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalised medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovatory topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.
Author : Michael Zeheter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981041
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Epidemics, Empire, and Environments written by Michael Zeheter and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites where outbreaks occurred. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. The colonial state in Quebec aimed to emulate British precedent and develop similar institutions that allowed authorities to prevent cholera by imposing quarantines and controlling the disease through comprehensive change to the urban environment and sanitary improvements. In Madras, however, the provincial government sought to exploit the colony for profit and was reluctant to commit its resources to measures against cholera that would alienate the city’s inhabitants. It was only in 1857, after concern rose in Britain over the health of its troops in India, that a civilizing mission of sanitary improvement was begun. As Zeheter shows, complex political and economic factors came to bear on the reshaping of each colony's environment and the urgency placed on disease control.
Author : Kevin Siena
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245424
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Rotten Bodies written by Kevin Siena and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense congregations of the poor—in workhouses, hospitals, slums, courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons—were rendered sites of immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force. Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively.
Author : Johan P. Mackenbach
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429131
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A History of Population Health written by Johan P. Mackenbach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of ‘rise-and-fall’, with large differences in timing between countries. Using a unique collection of historical data and bringing together insights from demography, economics, sociology, political science, medicine, epidemiology and general history, it shows that these changes and variations did not occur spontaneously, but were mostly man-made. Throughout European history, changes in health and longevity were therefore closely related to economic, social, and political conditions, with public health and medical care both making important contributions to population health improvement. Readers who would like to have a closer look at the quantitative data used in the trend graphs included in the book can find these it here.
Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582445
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Smell in Eighteenth-Century England written by William Tullett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.
Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521382359
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111873002X
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191542598
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book From Reformation to Improvement written by Paul Slack and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, derived from his 1995 Ford Lectures, examines its intellectual and political roots. He describes the policies and rhetoric of the commonwealthsmen, godly magistrates, Stuart monarchs, Interregnum projectors, and early Hanoverian philanthropists, and the institutions — notably hospitals and workhouses - which they created or reformed. In a series of thematic chapters, each linked to a chronological period, he brings together what might seem to have been disparate notions and activities, and shows that they expressed a sequence of coherent approaches towards public welfare. The result is a strikingly original study, which throws fresh light on the formation of civic consciousness and the emergence of a civil society in early modern England.
Author : Rebecca Anne Barr
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526127075
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century written by Rebecca Anne Barr and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature, medical history, religious history, and material culture in England, France, and Germany.
Author : V. Berridge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023034755X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Environment, Health and History written by V. Berridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Margaret DeLacy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137575298
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Germ of an Idea written by Margaret DeLacy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases.
Author : Christopher Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583633
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick written by Christopher Hamlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389228
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Death by Migration written by Philip D. Curtin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics from 1815 to 1914.
Author : Luis I. Prádanos
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663694
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies written by Luis I. Prádanos and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521431415
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
