Author: Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583633
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Author: Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583633
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583633
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices
Author: Edwin Chadwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368925911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368925911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Periodicals, Transactions and Reports in the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine
Author: New York Academy of Medicine. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
English Sanitary Institutions
Author: Sir John Simon
Publisher: London : New York : Cassell, Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher: London : New York : Cassell, Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Confronting Contagion
Author: Melvin Santer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199356378
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Throughout history, humankind's working theories regarding the cause of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs. Plagues that were originally attributed to the wrath of the gods were later described as having nothing to do with the gods, though the cause continued to be a mystery. As centuries passed, medical and religious theorists proposed reasons such as poor air quality or the configuration of the planets as causes for the spread of disease. In every instance, in order to understand the origin of a disease theory during a specific period of history, one must understand that culture's metaphysical beliefs. In Confronting Contagion, Melvin Santer traces a history of disease theory all the way from Classical antiquity to our modern understanding of viruses. Chapters focus on people and places like the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Galen and the emergence of Christianity in Rome, the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe, cholera and puerperal sepsis in the nineteenth century, and other periods during which our understanding of the cause of disease was transformed. The cause of contagious disease was demonstrated to be a general biological phenomenon; there are contagious diseases of plants, animals, and bacteria, with causes identical to causes of human diseases. These issues are uniquely included in this book. In each case, Santer identifies the key thinkers who helped form the working disease theories of the time. The book features many excerpts from primary sources, from the Hippocratic Corpus to the writings of twentieth-century virologists, creating an authentic synthesis of the Western world's intellectual and religious attitude toward disease throughout history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199356378
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Throughout history, humankind's working theories regarding the cause of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs. Plagues that were originally attributed to the wrath of the gods were later described as having nothing to do with the gods, though the cause continued to be a mystery. As centuries passed, medical and religious theorists proposed reasons such as poor air quality or the configuration of the planets as causes for the spread of disease. In every instance, in order to understand the origin of a disease theory during a specific period of history, one must understand that culture's metaphysical beliefs. In Confronting Contagion, Melvin Santer traces a history of disease theory all the way from Classical antiquity to our modern understanding of viruses. Chapters focus on people and places like the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Galen and the emergence of Christianity in Rome, the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe, cholera and puerperal sepsis in the nineteenth century, and other periods during which our understanding of the cause of disease was transformed. The cause of contagious disease was demonstrated to be a general biological phenomenon; there are contagious diseases of plants, animals, and bacteria, with causes identical to causes of human diseases. These issues are uniquely included in this book. In each case, Santer identifies the key thinkers who helped form the working disease theories of the time. The book features many excerpts from primary sources, from the Hippocratic Corpus to the writings of twentieth-century virologists, creating an authentic synthesis of the Western world's intellectual and religious attitude toward disease throughout history.
The Built Environment Transformed
Author: Geoffrey Timmins
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802071083
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book is concerned with the remarkable changes made to the built environment in Lancashire’s main textile district – essentially the eastern and central parts of the county – during the Industrial Revolution (c1780-c1850). A case-study approach is taken, with findings from investigations at six different types of site being presented. The sites included are water-powered mill remains in the Cheesden Valley, near Rochdale; Barrow Bridge factory village, near Bolton; the former handloom weavers’ colony at Club Houses, Horwich; Preston’s Winckley Square; Eanam Wharf at Blackburn; and, to the north of Bolton, the road between Bromley Cross and Edgworth. The case studies show how, in rural and urban areas alike, developments in industry, housing and transport greatly extended the built environment and brought striking new features to it. Emphasis is placed on interpreting the physical evidence the sites provide, linking it with that taken from various types of documentary source, especially historical maps. By making comparisons with developments occurring at similar types of site elsewhere in Britain, as well as in Europe and North America, the forms the changes took are explained and their significance assessed. Additionally, insights are provided into the economic and social impact the changes brought, especially on the everyday lives that people led.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802071083
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book is concerned with the remarkable changes made to the built environment in Lancashire’s main textile district – essentially the eastern and central parts of the county – during the Industrial Revolution (c1780-c1850). A case-study approach is taken, with findings from investigations at six different types of site being presented. The sites included are water-powered mill remains in the Cheesden Valley, near Rochdale; Barrow Bridge factory village, near Bolton; the former handloom weavers’ colony at Club Houses, Horwich; Preston’s Winckley Square; Eanam Wharf at Blackburn; and, to the north of Bolton, the road between Bromley Cross and Edgworth. The case studies show how, in rural and urban areas alike, developments in industry, housing and transport greatly extended the built environment and brought striking new features to it. Emphasis is placed on interpreting the physical evidence the sites provide, linking it with that taken from various types of documentary source, especially historical maps. By making comparisons with developments occurring at similar types of site elsewhere in Britain, as well as in Europe and North America, the forms the changes took are explained and their significance assessed. Additionally, insights are provided into the economic and social impact the changes brought, especially on the everyday lives that people led.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
A History of Modern Leeds
Author: Derek Fraser
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Government and the Health Laws. (Reprinted from the British Medical Journal, May 30th, 1868.).
Author: England
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Alysa Levene
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350102202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe. Using the 1851 census alongside extensive charity and community records, Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain tests the impact of migration, new types of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in Britain. Communal life for the Jews living there (over a third of whom had been born overseas) was a constantly shifting balance between the generation of wealth and respectability, and the risks of inundation by poor newcomers. But while earlier studies have used this balance as a backdrop for the story of individual Jewish communities, this book highlights the interactions between the people who made them up. At the core of the book is the question of what membership of the 'imagined community' of global Jewry meant: how it helped those who belonged to it, how it affected where they lived and who they lived with, the jobs that they did and the wealth or charity that they had access to. By stitching together patterns of residence, charity and worship, Alysa Levene is here able to reveal that religious and cultural bonds had vital functions both for making ends meet and for the formation of identity in a period of rapid demographic, religious and cultural change.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350102202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe. Using the 1851 census alongside extensive charity and community records, Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain tests the impact of migration, new types of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in Britain. Communal life for the Jews living there (over a third of whom had been born overseas) was a constantly shifting balance between the generation of wealth and respectability, and the risks of inundation by poor newcomers. But while earlier studies have used this balance as a backdrop for the story of individual Jewish communities, this book highlights the interactions between the people who made them up. At the core of the book is the question of what membership of the 'imagined community' of global Jewry meant: how it helped those who belonged to it, how it affected where they lived and who they lived with, the jobs that they did and the wealth or charity that they had access to. By stitching together patterns of residence, charity and worship, Alysa Levene is here able to reveal that religious and cultural bonds had vital functions both for making ends meet and for the formation of identity in a period of rapid demographic, religious and cultural change.