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Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and
realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of
legal and technological remedies for river pollution. It deals with
the involvement of scientists, particularly chemists, in pollution
inquiries and considers the effects on the normal workings of the
scientific community of scientists' participation in the adversary
forums in which water and sewage policy was made. It discusses 19th
ideas of decomposition, disease causation and purification and
examines the gap between the abilities of science and the needs of
society that developed as the existence of water-borne disease
became increasingly clear. It also deals with the politicization of
water bacteriology and the emergence of a technology of biological
sewage treatment from a political context.
This book exemplifies disagreements in agricultural research and
agricultural policies in the U.S. It hopes to expand the capacity
for critical discussion on matters of agriculture and attempts to
open a path to more fruitful communication among participants in
agricultural controversy.
Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and
realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of
legal and technological remedies for river pollution. It deals with
the involvement of scientists, particularly chemists, in pollution
inquiries and considers the effects on the normal workings of the
scientific community of scientists' participation in the adversary
forums in which water and sewage policy was made. It discusses 19th
ideas of decomposition, disease causation and purification and
examines the gap between the abilities of science and the needs of
society that developed as the existence of water-borne disease
became increasingly clear. It also deals with the politicization of
water bacteriology and the emergence of a technology of biological
sewage treatment from a political context.
This book exemplifies disagreements in agricultural research and
agricultural policies in the U.S. It hopes to expand the capacity
for critical discussion on matters of agriculture and attempts to
open a path to more fruitful communication among participants in
agricultural controversy.
Essays explore forensic science in global and historical context,
opening a critical window onto contemporary debates about the
universal validity of present-day genomic forensic practices.
Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility
as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public
view-that we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one
exemplified by DNA typing-has masked the reality: that forensic
science has always been unique, problematic, and contested. Global
Forensic Cultures aims to rectify this problem by recognizing the
universality of forensic questions and the variety of practices and
institutions constructed to answer them. Groundbreaking essays
written by leaders in the field address the complex and contentious
histories of forensic techniques. Contributors also examine the
co-evolution of these techniques with the professions creating and
using them, with the systems of governance and jurisprudence in
which they are used, and with the socioeconomic, political, racial,
and gendered settings of that use. Exploring the profound effect of
"location" (temporal and spatial) on the production and enactment
of forms of forensic knowledge during the century before CSI became
a household acronym, the book explores numerous related topics,
including the notion of burden of proof, changing roles of experts
and witnesses, the development and dissemination of forensic
techniques and skills, the financial and practical constraints
facing investigators, and cultures of forensics and of criminality
within and against which forensic practitioners operate. Covering
sites of modern and historic forensic innovation in the United
States, Europe, and farther-flung imperial and global settings,
these essays tell stories of blood, poison, corpses; tracking
persons and attesting documents; truth-making, egregious racism,
and sinister surveillance. Each chapter is a finely grained case
study. Collectively, Global Forensic Cultures supplies a historical
foundation for the critical appraisal of contemporary forensic
institutions which has begun in the wake of DNA-based exonerations.
Contributors: Bruno Bertherat, Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez,
Binyamin Blum, Ian Burney, Marcus B. Carrier, Simon A. Cole,
Christopher Hamlin, Jeffrey Jentzen, Projit Bihari Mukharji,
Quentin (Trais) Pearson, Mitra Sharafi, Gagan Preet Singh, Heather
Wolffram
The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived his vision of public health through public works and began the campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewerage works that ultimately became the standard components of urban infrastructure throughout the developed world. This book first explores that vision and campaign against the backdrop of the great "condition-of-England" questions of the period, of what rights and expectations working people could justifiably have in regard to political participation, food, shelter and conditions of work. It examines the ways Chadwick's sanitarianism fit the political needs of the much-hated Poor Law Commission and of Whig and Tory governments, each seeking some antidote to revolutionary Charitism. It then reviews the Chadwickians' efforts to solve the host of problems they met in trying to implement the sanitary idea: of what responsibilities central and local units of government, and private contractors, were to have; of how townspeople could be persuaded to embark on untried public technologies; of where the new public health experts were to come from; and of how elegant technical designs were to be fitted to the unique social, political and geographic circumstances of individual towns. Rejecting the view that Chadwick's program was a simple response to an obvious urban problem Professor Hamlin argues that at the time a "public health" focusing narrowly on sanitary public works represented a retreat of public medicine from involvement with the great social issues of the Industrial Revolution. In exploring the views of medical men who were critical of Chadwick, Hamlin suggests the parameters of a public health that might have been, in which concern for health and well-being becomes the foundation of a public medicine that is a principal guarantor of social justice. This book offers modern public heatlh professionals elements of a forgotten professional heritage that might be useful in responding to the bewildering range of health problems we now confront.
The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health
in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived
his vision of public health through public works and began the
campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewerage
works that ultimately became the standard components of urban
infrastructure throughout the developed world. This book first
explores that vision and campaign against the backdrop of the great
"condition-of-England" questions of the period, of what rights and
expectations working people could justifiably have in regard to
political participation, food, shelter and conditions of work. It
examines the ways Chadwick's sanitarianism fit the political needs
of the much-hated Poor Law Commission and of Whig and Tory
governments, each seeking some antidote to revolutionary Charitism.
It then reviews the Chadwickians' efforts to solve the host of
problems they met in trying to implement the sanitary idea: of what
responsibilities central and local units of government, and private
contractors, were to have; of how townspeople could be persuaded to
embark on untried public technologies; of where the new public
health experts were to come from; and of how elegant technical
designs were to be fitted to the unique social, political and
geographic circumstances of individual towns. Rejecting the view
that Chadwick's program was a simple response to an obvious urban
problem Professor Hamlin argues that at the time a "public health"
focusing narrowly on sanitary public works represented a retreat of
public medicine from involvement with the great social issues of
the Industrial Revolution. In exploring the views of medical men
who were critical of Chadwick, Hamlin suggests the parameters of a
public health that might have been, in which concern for health and
well-being becomes the foundation of a public medicine that is a
principal guarantor of social justice. This book offers modern
public heatlh professionals elements of a forgotten professional
heritage that might be useful in responding to the bewildering
range of health problems we now confront.
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