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Confronting the Climate : British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine /

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,...

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Main Author: Janković, Vladimir (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
Environment, general.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medicine.
Popular Science, general.
Social History.
Adaptation (Biology)
Civilization > History.
Ecology.
Euthenics.
Medicine > History.
Nature and nurture.
Popular works.
Social history.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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