Book ID: CBB000741895

Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (2006)

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Nash, Linda (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiii + 332 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the shifting understanding of the causes of disease in America from the 19th to the 20th century, indicating the move away from discussion about environmental causation and back again in response to the rise of germ theory.


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Review Sutter, Paul S. (2008) Review of "Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 202). unapi

Review Walker, Brett (2007) Review of "Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge". Journal of American History (p. 530). unapi

Essay Review Howell, David L. (2011) May Be Hazardous to Your Health. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 104-111). unapi

Essay Review Peset, José Luis (2012) Enfermedad e Historia Ecológica. Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina (pp. 277-283). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gorsky, Martin
Guillaume Linte
Rocio Gomez
Paul-Arthur Tortosa
Gaille, Marie
Farmer, Jared
Concepts
Health
Disease and diseases
Public health
Environmental health; environmental medicine
Environmental history
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
United States
Europe
California (U.S.)
Great Britain
North America
Mexico
Institutions
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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