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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