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Confronting the Climate V. Jankovic

Confronting the Climate By V. Jankovic

Confronting the Climate by V. Jankovic


Summary

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.

Confronting the Climate Summary

Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine by V. Jankovic

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.

Confronting the Climate Reviews

'...fascinating book...overall this is an original and informative addition to the historical literature on health and environment.' - Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University, Social History of Medicine

'Thought-provoking By showing the extensive links between ideas of bodies, comfort, risk, and moral behavior, Jankovic has ensured a more complicated discussion of modern environmental thought.' - The History of Science Society

About V. Jankovic

VLADIMIR JANKOVIC Wellcome Research Lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

Exposed and Vulnerable Cursed by Comfort Artificial Airs Intimate Climates The Choice of Air

Additional information

NLS9781349289349
9781349289349
1349289345
Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine by V. Jankovic
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-11-17
229
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