Environment, Health and History

1. Introduction: Environment, Health and History
Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky

2. Housing and Health in Early Modern London
Vanessa Harding

3. Environment and Disease in Ireland
Christopher Hamlin

4. The Handbuch der Hygiene: A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?
Dieter Schott

5. Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment
Simon Carter

6. Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918–50
Jane M. Adams

7. Rethinking the Post-War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the British Colonial Empire
Sabine Clarke

8. ‘Health Crusades’: Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930–60
Christian Bonah

9. Cross-Nationalising the History of Industrial Hazard
Christopher C. Sellers

10. The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors
Christian Warren

11. Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1986 and 1992
Lisa Rumiel

12. The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics
Ingar Palmlund

13. Epilogue: The Co-Benefits for Health of Meeting Global Environmental Challenges
Paul Wilkinson

Keywords: History, History of Science, History of Medicine, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, Environment, general