Author : Nigel Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317313909
Explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. This study compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era.
Author : George Edwin Waring
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Drainage
ISBN :
Author : George Edwin Waring (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Sewage disposal
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Author : George Edwin Waring
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338535532X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Jacob Steere-Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1648250025
Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Author : Ian Hesketh
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 082298184X
New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked. Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources—monographs, lectures, correspondence—from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Author : Victoria Carroll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981815
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Author : L S Jacyna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1317314921
An in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the relationship between language and the brain broke new ground.
Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981777
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.
Author : James F. Stark
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981742
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax." Stark offers a fresh perspective on the history of infectious disease. He examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance, and constructs a narrative that spans public, professional and geographic domains.
