In Pursuit of Healthy Environments

Esa Ruuskanen is a Senior Research Fellow and the person responsible for the minor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include environmental history of Western and Northern European peatlands, energy histories, and the environment-technology interaction. Heini Hakosalo works as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her major research projects have dealt with Foucauldian historian of medicine and psychiatry, the history of brain sciences in late nineteenth century Europe, the beginnings of women’s medical education in Finland and Sweden, and history of tuberculosis in twentieth century Finland.

Introduction

Part I: Healthy and Unhealthy Environments

1. Crafts and Cleanliness: The Regulation of Noxious Business Activity in English Towns During the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

2. Healthy Nature in a Bottle? The Contested Naturalness of Mineral Water

3. Environmental Anxieties in 1980s Athens: Mediatisation and Politics

4. The Woodland Cure: Tuberculosis Sanatorium Patients’ Perceptions of the Healing Power of Nature

Part II: Colonial Environments and Health

5. From the "Wooden World" to "London Miniature": Charlotte Bristow Browne’s Diary, Nursing and the French and Indian War

6. Geography of Arctic Food: Northern Environment and Sámi Health in Transition, c. 1780–1920

7. Standardized Housing Concepts in the North: Sámi Housing Meets Western Hygienic Norms in Twentieth-Century Finland

8. Health as Living in Tranquility: Dialogues with the Apurinã and Yaminawa in Indigenous Brazilian Amazonia

Part III: Environmental and Medical Knowledges

9. Local Environmental Knowledge, Cultural Go-Betweens and Linnaean Scientists in the Dutch Colonial World

10. Promotion of a Modern Holistic Vision of Hygiene: E. W. Lane's Hygienic Medicine in the British Medical Market, 1850s–1880s

11. From the Local to the Global, from the Environment to the Individual: Epidemiological Knowledge-Production and Changing Notions of Public Health

12. Ultimate and Proximate, Genetic and Environmental: History of the Explanations of Altruism Since the 1960s

Concluding Chapter