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In Pursuit of Healthy Environments - Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus (Hardcover)
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In Pursuit of Healthy Environments - Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
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In Pursuit of Healthy Environments brings temporal depth to a
highly topical issue, the interaction between health and the
environment. By means of a rich set of historical case studies from
Americas to Europe and from the tropics to the Arctic, the volume
demonstrates that the concern for creating and finding healthy
environments is not a new one, shows how the link between the
environment and health has been perceived at different times and in
different cultures, and discusses the practical implications of
these conceptualizations. The book written by scholars from
architecture, cultural anthropology, history, Indigenous Studies,
media studies and sociology will be of interest to a reader
interested in the historical roots of present health-related
environmental issues. It discusses the spatiality and materiality
of the conceptions of health and the practices of nurture in
colonial and post-colonial environments and shows how greatly
indigenous and colonial mindsets have differed during the last 300
years. It also investigates how certain environments have become
labelled as healthy and life-preserving while others stigmatized by
death and disease and how fluctuating these notions can be.
Finally, it analyses the materialities and immaterialities, as well
as the transgenerational and transboundary characters of
environmental and medical knowledge.
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