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Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus
Barnes and Noble
Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus
Current price: $170.00
Barnes and Noble
Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus
Current price: $170.00
Size: Hardcover
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The book written by scholars from architecture, cultural anthropology, history, Indigenous Studies, media studies and sociology will be of interest to a reader interested in the historical roots of present health-related environmental issues. It discusses the spatiality and materiality of the conceptions of health and the practices of nurture in colonial and post-colonial environments and shows how greatly indigenous and colonial mindsets have differed during the last 300 years.
It also investigates how certain environments have become labelled as healthy and life-preserving while others stigmatized by death and disease and how fluctuating these notions can be. Finally, it analyses the materialities and immaterialities, as well as the transgenerational and transboundary characters of environmental and medical knowledge.