Book ID: CBB001033488

Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (2010)

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Jankovic, Vladimir (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: x + 229 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Wolfson, Mariel (2012) Review of "Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine". Medical History (pp. 398-399). unapi

Review Anderson, Katharine (2012) Review of "Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 590-591). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fleming, James Rodger
Colwell, Rita R.
Dennis, Matthew
Dodgshon, Robert A.
Endfield, Georgina H.
Garden, Don
Journals
Environment and History
Journal of Historical Geography
Australian Historical Studies
Health and History
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Publishers
University of Oregon
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Columbia University Press
Louisiana State University Press
Ohio University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Weather
Meteorology
Environmental history
Medicine
Science and society
People
Burton, Robert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
16th century
Places
Australia
Scotland
England
Alps (Europe)
Great Britain
Malay; Malaysia
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