Death and Survival in Urban Britain
«This well-written and engaging book steers the reader through the epidemio-logical and environmental terrain of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both in terms of contemporaries' conceptions of the causes of disease and their amelioration, and how the historian problematises morbidity and mortality in urban Britain. It reproduces in one body Luckin's work at an accessible price.»
Family and Community History
The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which, published together for the first time, along with new material and contextualizing notes, marks the beginning of this important strand of historiography. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780857726537
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
Anmeldelser
«This well-written and engaging book steers the reader through the epidemio-logical and environmental terrain of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both in terms of contemporaries' conceptions of the causes of disease and their amelioration, and how the historian problematises morbidity and mortality in urban Britain. It reproduces in one body Luckin's work at an accessible price.»
Family and Community History