Environment, Health and History

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Environment, Health and History

   • Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky

   Pages 1-22

3. Housing and Health in Early Modern London

   • Vanessa Harding

   Pages 23-44

4. Environment and Disease in Ireland

   • Christopher Hamlin

   Pages 45-68

5. The Handbuch der Hygiene: A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?

   • Dieter Schott

   Pages 69-93

6. Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment

   • Simon Carter

   Pages 94-112

7. Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918–50

   • Jane M. Adams

   Pages 113-132

8. Rethinking the Post-War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the British Colonial Empire

   • Sabine Clarke

   Pages 133-153

9. ‘Health Crusades’: Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930–60

   • Christian Bonah

   Pages 154-177

10. Cross-Nationalising the History of Industrial Hazard

    • Christopher C. Sellers

    Pages 178-205

11. The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors

    • Christian Warren

    Pages 206-223

12. Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1986 and 1992

    • Lisa Rumiel

    Pages 224-243

13. The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics

    • Ingar Palmlund

    Pages 244-269

14. Epilogue: The Co-Benefits for Health of Meeting Global Environmental Challenges

    • Paul Wilkinson

    Pages 270-273

15. Back Matter

    Pages 274-297

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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.

• environment
• environmental science
• Germany
• health
• history
• hygiene
• infection

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

  Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky

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 Brook University, 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

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