The English philosopher Jeremy Bentham first defined the term
"mesology," and its related "social mesology," as being the
discipline concerned with the effects upon human beings as
individuals or in society of meteorological conditions, food and
drink, urbanization, sanitation, occupation, domesticity, religion,
institutions, laws, and psychological factors. In Radiation and
Health, originally published in 1964, William Valentine Mayneord
takes this argument one step further by adding "ionizing radiation"
to this formidable catalogue.
While many people argue that health is a definable and
measurable quantity, characteristically expressing it in a negative
way via mortality or morbidity statistics, Mayneord argues that the
patterns of life throughout the world vary so greatly that no
standard can be set for all people, or even for the same people at
different times. Moreover, health status has to be looked at from a
community, as well as from a personal, point of view, and social
well-being may be regarded as a predisposing condition of
individual health.
In the search for quantitative criteria, many "health
indicators" have been classified into three groups: those
associated with the health status of persons or populations in a
given area, those related to physical environmental conditions
having a more or less direct bearing on the health status of the
population in an area, and those concerned with health-service
activities directed to improvement of health conditions. While
radiation has many negative effects, it also has positive ones,
including curing diseases. Mayneord acknowledges the dangers of
radiation, but believes they are manageable if handled responsibly.
This classic volume, long unavailable, is much cited in
contemporary research on the subject.
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