Environment, Health and History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 134931322X ISBN 13: 9781349313228

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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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 BrookUniversity, 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 134931322X
• ISBN 13: 9781349313228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Berridge V., Gorsky M.