Author: Henry Letheby
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781333744854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Report to the Honorable Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on Sewage and Sewer Gases, and on the Ventilation of Sewers This may, perhaps, appear unnecessary; for it might be truly said, that public opinion, guided by the commonest observation, has long since decided that these miasms are injurious to health. It is, in fact, a popular, as well as a medical notion, that every kind of putrid pollution is hurtful to the human body; and this has been impressed upon the public mind, not by the fancies of the faculty, but by the terrible and unmistakeable facts of experience. The history of the old epidemics, and especially of those in the middle ages, has but too fully demonstrated how, little by little, the people, as well as the profession, have come to know that the neglected filth of their houses and cities has fed the plague, and spread the pestilence. When there were no sanitary regu lations beyond the merciful regulations of heaven, which now and then sent torrents of rain to wash away the heaps Of ancient filth from their Old resting places in the public streets; when every house incorporated its own stink, and treasured up its own putridity; when earth, and air, and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Tom Crook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0520290356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England, long regarded as one of the 'homes' of modern public health. The modernity of modern public health, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of a centralized, bureaucratic and disciplinary State, but in the contested formation and intricate functioning of systems of governing, from the administrative to the technological. Equally, we need to embrace a dialectical understanding of modern governance, one that is rooted in the interaction of multiple levels, agents and times. Theoretically ambitious, but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity"--
Author: Tom Crook
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1137467452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some much needed historical perspective.
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 1030
ISBN-13:
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